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Date Posted: 11:16:05 02/22/03 Sat
Author: rujane
Subject: Re: More Stats
In reply to: talkonline 's message, "Did anyone hear BoHannon's take on this story?" on 10:34:55 02/22/03 Sat


This was a HUGE topic of discussion this morning on 770AM (around 9-10). Several interesting facts came out. There are about 100,000 potential organ recipients every year and only 20,000 donations, so there are supply-and-demand issues that lend themselves to manipulation of who gets priority. Under Clinton appointee, Donna Shalala the standard was changed for priority from the patient who was most likely to survive long-term to patient who was the sickest. Unfortunately, the sickest patient is often the least likely to survive long term and the one to have negative side effects to the transplant (organ rejection, etc). This also means that medical standards are determined by the federal government, not by physicians, who can indicate that a patient needs a transplant, but who cannot choose which patient gets one.
Most of the callers to this show were VERY angry that two sets of organs that came from a US citizen, and very expensive medical care that predated the actual surgery, were given to a non-citizen.

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