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    more than humans. However‚ for human beings imprisoned‚ even giving them basic medical care is likely to make some law-abiding taxpayers annoyed. They don’t want to give prisoners any essential help. When prisoners are badly ill and need organ transplants‚ people want to ignore the medical need of prisoners and blame that “they deserve to die”. I feel so guilty for all these people‚ thinking of human lives more trivial than caged animals. This is definitely wrong. Leaving them alone means killing

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    Responsibility Ought to be Considered in Organ Allocation Organ allocation. A process in which someone‚ somewhere decides where to place people on the transplant list. Many factors must be considered as organs are a scarce resource. Such factors must include‚ life style‚ age‚ prognosis‚ other comorbidities and most importantly the cause for the transplant. To explore these ideas‚ I will focus on the Zambrano article introduced in class. In this article‚ the author explores the argument of responsibility

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    Hepatitis A

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    circulated with this vaccine. In the early 1970s‚ more hepatitis viruses were being discovered such as hepatitis A‚ C‚ E and G. Furthermore‚ vaccines started to be developed for these infections. General Information Hepatitis A is a very deadly liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus. It can vary in austerity from a small illness lasting a few weeks‚ to a severe illness lasting several months. The disease takes approximately two to six weeks before symptoms are clearly visible‚ and the

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    there is a very well-off person that needs a new liver. But he needs a new liver because he spent his entire life as an alcoholic. He may even get a new liver and then he continues drinking and would be dead in two months. Anyway because of the consequences of his continuing off to abuse his liver. On the other side of the cons of the legalization of organ transplants perhaps there is a child with liver cancer that will die unless he gets a transplant. There are many humanitarian in the world who would

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    Alcohol

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    million deaths‚ or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4 percent for women)‚ were attributable to alcohol consumption.. Alcohol contributes to over 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions‚ most notably alcohol dependence‚ liver cirrhosis‚ cancers‚ and injuries. In 2012‚ alcohol accounted for 5.1 percent of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Globally‚ alcohol misuse is the fifth leading risk factor for premature death and disability; among people between the

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    Cirrhosis is a progressive chronic inflammation of the liver that typically results from severe chronic hepatitis or chronic alcoholism as we know. Cirrhosis is defined histologically as a diffuse hepatic process characterized by fibrosis and the conversion of normal liver architecture into structurally abnormal nodules. In other words‚ The damaged hepatocytes regenerates‚ but the liver’s connective (scar) tissue regenerates faster. As a result‚ the liver becomes fatty and fibrous‚ depressing its normal

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    Shameless Analysis

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    Shameless “Reflection” Shameless is a show based in chicago which is kind of weird knowing how bad chicago is with all the crime that’s going on and the high murder rate but then again Lancaster hasn’t been the safest of cities in the u.s either. Well shameless is about a dysfunctional family who struggles with life every single day‚ and every day there seems to be a new problem that occurs. Even though the main characters happen to have their own set of problems they always value family first and

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    with obesity‚ and that obesity now affects people of economic statuses. ​Obesity is the driving force for insulin resistance. It can also lead to a fatty liver‚ which in turn increases cardiovascular risk factors. This can further lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This disease is expected to be the number one reason for liver transplants in the next ten years. ​An increase in weight can substantially increase diabetes risk‚ even if you are not overweight. However‚ it is not all bad news

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    gender can lead to diseases and conditions that the patient had no intention of creating. There are two patients in need for a lung transplant‚ a heavy smoker and a boy named tommy who inherited cystic fibrosis‚ an inherited disease that causes thick‚ sticky mucus to form in the lungs‚ pancreas and other organs.It obviously makes more sense to give the lung transplant to little tommy who didn’t ask for his lung

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    Chao Peng Professor Rob Drummond WR 121 English Composition II of Oregon State University 22 February 2013 Should a Prisoner Be on the Waiting List of Organ Transplant? When both a prisoner and a non-criminal need an organ transplant‚ how can a doctor make the decision? Doctors have an ethical duty to save all patients. No matter what kind of patients they encounter‚ a cruel killer or an innocent victim‚ they should treat them in the same way. In many Hong Kong movies about gangsters‚ doctors

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