For Sale: Kidney Story. Never Authorized.

What material is acceptable to "steal" for literature? And how much does it need to be changed?

By now you’ve probably read the Kidney Person saga or at least some of the one million tweets about it. As a story, the article is well written and full of wild and gossipy tidbits. It’s also perhaps a bit ethically sketchy in parts—personally I wouldn’t have included mean private text messages from writers who weren’t Dorland or Larson (the right to sn…