Transplant surgeons “tweeting” from the operating room during kidney surgery? I LOVE technology!
(For those of you not hip to Millenial lingo, “tweeting” means posting brief updates to Twitter.) Thanks, Meghan, for sending me the link!
Archive for February, 2009
Tweet this: Just Opened up – Kidney Looks Lovely
Posted in Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Organ transplants, Transplant innovations on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Propping Up Our Fellow Living Donors – Support Groups are Essential
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Living organ donation on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, the living donor care staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital hosted a support group meeting for the living liver donors who have graced their lives over the past three years. More than a dozen of us showed up, some with stories spanning more than three years, one who was still wearing her [...]
Sharing a Friday smile, through Matt and his worldwide dance
Posted in Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Inspiration, Just for fun on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m meditating today on two women I know who are having difficult times, one because her Mom is struggling with severe kidney problems in the wake of a liver transplant two weeks ago, and the other because, while she heals from her donation of her liver to her husband, he lies in the hospital, urgently awaiting another [...]
More for the organ donation ethics junkies
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Should living donors be compensated?, Transplant ethics on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you care to follow the debate on whether living organ donors should be compensated as a part of the solution to the organ shortage, you are bound to find a steady supply of fodder. It is everywhere lately, it seems —in ill-researched blog posts, in contentious radio shows hosted by blow-hards, in newspaper op-ed columns and [...]
Is anybody out there? (Studying the impacts of living organ donation, I mean)
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Transplant innovations on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Many of you, both living donors and transplant professionals alike, have shared with me your frustration, anger, and/or resignation that there isn’t enough research available about the physical and emotional impact of the living donation journey. (For those of you just getting started, you may learn this soon enough. We are a relatively new phenomenon in the world [...]
