http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2009/10/transplanting-kidneys-from-people-who.html
Friday, October 02, 2009
Transplanting kidneys from people who had kidney failure
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Nobody should think they’re too sick (or too old) to be an organ donor. People who need transplants would rather live with imperfect organs than die waiting for perfect ones.
As transplant medicine continues to advance, surgeons will continue to transplant lots of organs once thought unusable. Transplanting kidneys from people who suffered acute kidney failure will expand the supply of kidneys by about 1,000 per year. It’s a shame Americans continue to bury or cremate 10,000 transplantable kidneys every year.
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Seems obvious. Better a poor substitute than the alternative.
10k kidneys every year? That’s criminal. We need a free market.
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