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 ‘Transplantation ethics’
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 »
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 [...]
The Marcos/UPMC aftermath
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, Spread the word, Transplantation ethics on November 26, 2008 | 15 Comments »
After digesting the Wall Street Journal’s 2,500-word opus on the breaking scandal at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s renown transplant center, my emotions are stirring violently this evening. “Disappointed” is an understatement. “Shocked” is an overstatement. ”Angry,” “betrayed,” “saddened,” “curious,” and “determined” all come to mind, but none alone fits.
More than anything, I feel protective. [...]
UPMC’s transplant program ethics laid bare in the WSJ
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, Spread the word, Transplantation ethics on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m rushed for time tonight but wanted to link to this important Wall Street Journal article as quickly as possible — the content will be available to non-subscribers only for a limited time, so act quickly if you want to reach it.
This high-profile story discusses questionable ethics of leadership at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s [...]
The ethics of online organ donor-matching services
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Organ transplants, Transplantation ethics on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A zinger arrived in my inbox yesterday, courtesy of ”Kidney Transplant Today,” the email newsletter of the American Association of Kidney Patients. Clinical Transplantation has published an empirical study that calls into question the social and economic ethics of Web sites like MatchingDonors.com that attempt to match altruistic would-be living kidney donors with people in need of [...]
Is it worth it? Preposterous transplant stories on popular TV dramas
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Surgeons we love, Transplant innovations, Transplantation ethics on October 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The online transplant community is all a-twitter over the season premiere of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy last week. The intense premiere featured a 12-person kidney donation chain, where the would-be donors of several transplant candidates all swapped their kidneys with each other to find organs that matched for all their recipients. That’s 12 transplants happening at once, in six [...]
The “defining death” debate: a good Economist article
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplantation ethics on October 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If all we ever went by were episodes of CSI Miami and Law & Order, our world’s definition of death would be an easy one, for sure. (The person was alive. They were killed. Now they’re dead.) But reality is more complex than that, and in truth, physicians, ethicists, politicians, religious leaders, and many others [...]
The Pope is an organ donor, and more on religion and transplantation
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged 3. Organ Transplantation Resources (General), Living organ donation, Organ donation, Religion, Transplantation ethics on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was happy to learn via this blog post today that the current leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, is a registered organ donor, yea! He reportedly signed up as one several years ago, when he was a cardinal. It’s largely a gesture, really, because the Pope’s body will be buried intact, just like [...]
