This terrific and thoughtful blog post is WAAAAY over my non-math-oriented head, but I enjoyed reading it … so I’m sure any of you who are more mathematically inclined will enjoy it even more.
The blogger writes about a married couple — mathemetician Sommer Gentry and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Dorry Segey — who were principal researchers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kidney donor chains’
A mathematical approach to kidney donor chains
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Altruistic donation, Kidney donor chains, Kidney transplants, Non-directed donation, Organ transplant ethics, Paired donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant ethics, Transplantation ethics on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Namaste, Yu u nobuntu, and other praise for the humanity of living donors
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Altruistic donation, Inspiration, Kidney donor chains, Paired donation, Religion and organ transplants, Transplant innovations on November 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m in a somewhat fragile state, wearing my heart on my sleeve and getting emotional when I see happy transplant stories in the news these days. (My brother Joe, the recipient of my liver in 2006, has been hospitalized three times in the past six weeks, owing to an unrelenting stricture in his duct at the [...]
