Mass Com – TR 10:30 Term Paper Have A Heart Medicine has evolved since the days of bloodletting‚ but from the perspective of a waiting recipient on the organ donor list‚ we still live in the dark ages. With a list of 110‚941 hopeful candidates for organ transplant‚ the status of organ donation as a taboo subject in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has left an average of 20 people dead each day.(1) The high demand and low supply has led to creative solutions from both medical and government sectors
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Organ donation shortage Organ donation shortage When receiving a driver’s license in the United States‚ there is a section on the back in which it asks if the licensed driver would like to become an organ donor. Most people overlook this option. Nothing is really pushed forth for people wanting to become organ donors. Today in the U.S‚ thousands of people need organ transplants. Unfortunately‚ there is a growing shortage of donated organs. Many people die every year because there are not enough
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Why organ donation is important? Did you know that seventeen people will die today? They will not die because they were in a car wreck‚ involved in a shooting‚ or because it was simply that their time had come. Seventeen people will die because they couldn’t get an organ transplant in time. Money’s not the issue here. Neither is scarcity. There are potential donors who pass away every day who could meet the needs of people on the waiting list. The problem is the potential
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Saving Lives When Is It Ethical The decision to be an organ donor is not an easy decision to make‚ but the donor has the easiest part of the donation process. The decision of when to extract the organs usually falls on the family and the attending physician. The question since organ donation began has always been when are you really dead? This one question has been an ongoing controversy not only with the public‚ but with churches‚ and the government as well. The government has tried to put rules
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them she was dead‚ they also received a call from the Iowa Donor Network. They said their condolences and told my mom how Sam was an organ donor and asked if it was acceptable if they had permission to take the organs and tissues to the donor network and for people in need of those organs and tissues. Organ donation is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ for the purpose of transplantation into another person. One donor can make a difference between fifty to one hundred peoples’ lives
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include organ failure. People who wait on a list to be given a new organ. The list gets longer and longer every year and people die in result of the length of the list. As NBC13.com news points out “everyday seventeen people die waiting for organ transplants.”People are truly waiting to die. These deaths could simply be prevented by having a system in place that could provide a service to these helpless individuals. According to this same site‚ there are 120‚000 people still waiting for organs‚ nationwide
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of others” (Pericles). Organ donation is the process of one human being donating his or her organs to another human being in need. Which is very often since on average 22 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. With that being said every 10 minutes a patient is added to the waiting list. While on the waiting list there is no guarantee that the patient will receive a transplant. To top it off there is a 1:8 ratio with organ donation. That means mean one organ donor can save 8 lives.
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Organ donation. It has caused plenty of cases to come about in the court system‚ and that probably won’t end anytime soon. Organ donation is when an organ is donated to someone in need of a replacement. Some organs can be given from people while they are alive. A kidney‚ part of your liver‚ and even things like blood and bone marrow. People can be organ donors so that when they die or are brain dead‚ someone else can receive the organ they need. But the question with a continuing debate and no answer
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I have chosen the topic of organ donation/transplantation. I would begin my introduction with background information about organ donation/transplantation like when it first came into the medical field‚ as well as what were its major milestones in history so far. I would introduce my thesis in the introduction paragraph. My thesis statement is‚ organ transplants have revolutionized medicine and have become a major part of saving a human life and there should be more organ donors each year to help contribute
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Why is organ transplant important The reason why I think organ donation is very important‚ because it gives a second chance to life to a person that is in need of an organ because they organs have start to fail and shut down. Although clinical issues such as the possibility of the recipient’s body rejecting the organ have been raised‚ the social and legal issues—from determining how donations should be handled and who should receive them‚ to the black-market practice of organ trafficking—spark the
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