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 ‘Paired exchanges’
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 »
Kidney donation chain makes “big” news in the Wall Street Journal
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Paired donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant innovations on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A basic Google search of the daily news will typically yield at least one story a day about living organ donation, often in small, community newspapers that still devote ample “ink” to telling stories about the humanity that surrounds them. (The daily appearance of these stories isn’t surprising, given that there are roughly 17 living donor kidney transplants a day [...]
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 [...]
