U.S. Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Representative Joe Courtney (D- CT) have introduced legislation to prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions in group health plans and in health insurance coverage for groups and individuals. For living organ donors, this is important news, because health insurance plans can and do consider living donation to be an “pre-existing condition” that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Living organ donation’
Get involved: Pre-Existing Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged How you can help, Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplant legislation, Spread the word on June 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A rockin’ finale on 30 Rock: “He Needs a Kidney!”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Famous organ transplant advocates, Funnies, Kidney donation, Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Spread the word on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been traveling all over the world lately and am woefully behind on my TV watching… so I’m super late in pointing out the simply-best-ever musical finale of a quirky sit-com in the history of television. My heros at NBC’s show 30 Rock have written living organ donation into their plot for their last two [...]
How to give without spending – 365 days a year!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inspiration, Living organ donation on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living organ donors are some of the most naturally and intuitively generous people I know. Many of us simply don’t give a second thought to the idea of giving. The desire just comes to us like the impulse to breathe, or drink water when we are thirsty.
I found a very fun blog this weekend that [...]
Good questions to take to your living donor work-up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged living donor complications, Living organ donation, Living organ donor support on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An insider at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center suggested two “right questions” to ask of a transplant center to better understand the risk of being a living donor:
How many of your living donors had complications required invasive procedures?
What is that number as a percentage of your total living donors for that same time period?
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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 »
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!
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 [...]
Lawyers for living donors – Where do you turn?
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Donor resources, Living organ donation, Transplantation ethics on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A potential non-directed donor (someone considering donating an organ anonymously to whomever needs it) wrote to the Greatest Gift Foundation with a question that stumped me. And yet it’s a logical question — I’m surprised I haven’t heard it before. He was thinking that before or during his approach to become a living donor, he [...]
