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 ‘Non-directed donation’
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 »
Thinking of living organ donation to a stranger? Your first steps…
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Donor resources, Altruistic donation, Non-directed donation, Living organ donation, Anonymous donation, Daisy chain on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Perhaps it is the firm resolve of the New Year, or some planetary alignment, or just our world’s really good fortune: All around me lately have been people asking questions about how to become an anonymous living organ donor. Last Friday, in fact, I received emails from two different people who found this blog, telling me they were considering giving [...]
One big happy organ swap in NYC
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Altruistic donation, Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Non-directed donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant innovations on August 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found a nice quote of unknown origin online today: “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.” It’s reminiscent of the less elegant saying ”what goes around comes around,” or the Mother Goose-y idiom ”one good turn deserves another.” All worthy (but probably woefully inadequate) ways of putting into mere words the glorious sentiment that eight people [...]
