Subtitle: Or it isn’t, but they say it anyway… Recently, Google Alerts dropped the University of Wisconsin Medical Center’s “10 Reasons Why You Should Be a Living Kidney Donor” in my lap (or inbox). The exaggerations and misleading statements on the page are worthy of multiple blog posts, but right now I want to …
Tag Archive: solicitation
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Public Kidney Donor Solicitation Redeux
Back in 2010, I talked about the ethical problems with public solicitations for kidney donors using a real world example*. I discussed the would-be recipient’s (or in this case, recipient’s family) selfishness and sense of entitlement, the complicity on the part of the transplant industry in offering workshops to teach folks how to engage in …
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State of Living Kidney Donation in Europe
Like all such academically published articles, there’s good and bad. The good? Admitting that transplant centers benefit financially and otherwise from living kidney donor transplants: We must also mention that the higher the number of transplantations, the better the reputation for the transplant centre. Furthermore, in some centres, the number of transplantations is so high that it is …
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Transplant Center Encouraging Solicitation
Only three years ago, the entire transplant system was a’twitter about the ethical ramification of recipients soliciting for a living donor. The issue was so profound that the entire “Frontiers of Ethics in Transplantation” conference was dedicated solely to this one question. But it’s 2011. Not only has the transplant industry gotten suspiciously quiet on …
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Live Kidney Donation and the Ethic of Care
Yep, I stole the title from the article itself. Much of this article could be confusing to those who don’t know the vocabulary of ethics, medical ethics and the like. I’ll spare my wandering readers the authors’ process and skip right to their conclusions and recommendations. The focus in organ transplants needs to shift perspective …
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