Comments on: Would You Give Your Kidney to a Stranger? Dallas Hospitals Don’t Want You To. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/would-you-give-your-kidney-to-a-stranger-dallas-hospitals-dont-want-you-to/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 19:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/would-you-give-your-kidney-to-a-stranger-dallas-hospitals-dont-want-you-to/comment-page-1/#comment-42591 Linda Gorman Fri, 15 May 2009 18:51:55 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3410#comment-42591 Any thoughts on how a surgeon verifies that a donor kidney was given/sold voluntarily with fully infomed consent? Larry Niven's organlegging stories come to mind. If you don't like science fiction, consider what is reportedly going on now in Egypt (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008874285_egyptorgansforsale.html) and China (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147252.php). Any thoughts on how a surgeon verifies that a donor kidney was given/sold voluntarily with fully infomed consent?

Larry Niven’s organlegging stories come to mind. If you don’t like science fiction, consider what is reportedly going on now in Egypt (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008874285_egyptorgansforsale.html) and China (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147252.php).

]]> By: Vicki http://healthblog.ncpa.org/would-you-give-your-kidney-to-a-stranger-dallas-hospitals-dont-want-you-to/comment-page-1/#comment-42568 Vicki Thu, 14 May 2009 22:36:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3410#comment-42568 Have to say it makes me angry to think that Dallas hospitals think they should be able to dictate who can help whom in the realm of kidney failure. As long as there is a good match, the role of the doctor and the hospital is to do the transplant. It is frankly none of their business what the relationship is between the donor and the recipient -- whether it is kinship, altruism, or buyer and seller. Have to say it makes me angry to think that Dallas hospitals think they should be able to dictate who can help whom in the realm of kidney failure.

As long as there is a good match, the role of the doctor and the hospital is to do the transplant. It is frankly none of their business what the relationship is between the donor and the recipient — whether it is kinship, altruism, or buyer and seller.

]]> By: Bruce http://healthblog.ncpa.org/would-you-give-your-kidney-to-a-stranger-dallas-hospitals-dont-want-you-to/comment-page-1/#comment-42554 Bruce Thu, 14 May 2009 20:54:47 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3410#comment-42554 Under-the-table payments? Horrors. How about making the whole thing legal so there can be over-the-table payments in a real market? Whose life is it anyway? Whose kidney is it? The hospital's? Under-the-table payments? Horrors. How about making the whole thing legal so there can be over-the-table payments in a real market?

Whose life is it anyway? Whose kidney is it? The hospital’s?

]]> By: Ken http://healthblog.ncpa.org/would-you-give-your-kidney-to-a-stranger-dallas-hospitals-dont-want-you-to/comment-page-1/#comment-42551 Ken Thu, 14 May 2009 20:51:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3410#comment-42551 Absolutely amazing. How many people do you suppose have died because of this kind of bureaucratic thinking. Absolutely amazing. How many people do you suppose have died because of this kind of bureaucratic thinking.

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