BEIJING (AP) — A Canadian patient's receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation Society: A turnaround that quick indicates the organ likely came from the body of an executed prisoner. In a country that routinely suppresses discussions of human-rights issues and cracks down on lawyers and independent groups, government officials and state media have been relatively open about China's problems with organ donation. A former deputy health minister, Huang said he speaks to top government officials about reforms they need to make to win the world's confidence. Newspapers in China often publish positive stories of families that have given the organs of a loved one, an apparent attempt to shift longstanding cultural attitudes about donation. In what appeared to be a reference to traditional beliefs about keeping a body whole, the article quoted the doctor's wife as warning their daughter against "tying her hopes to an uncertain heavenly place." According to the government, Chinese doctors performed 10,057 organ transplants in 2015. Chinese government statistics often engender deep skepticism, and critics of China's organ donation practices say they're not convinced. Dr.