Someone made $2million dollars...if not the donor - who?
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You know who... anyone in on the medical funding gravy train ,,, whether the support for their business is in the form of government generated rules and regulations that effectively grant a protected franchise or if it is from the facilitation of the normal practice of modern transplant medicine...
I have nothing against organ donation , it saves and improves lives ... but I feel very strongly that the donor should be compensated , without them it all comes to a halt... compensating donors will dramatically increase the availability of tissue and stop the abuses (such as the N.J. cadaver tissue/bone scandal last year , Bill Clinton’s scandal wherein HIV positive prisoners were forced to donate blood) related to the scarcity of tissue...
I would have felt funny about being compensated, and I think that type of element would cause more problems with the decision making process for the families.
add $$ into the picture and then it isn’t about trying to figure out what the patient would have wanted -
“””””I have nothing against organ donation , it saves and improves lives...””””
Does it? What about the donors’ lives - is it possible their lives would be saved if there was less emphasis on their by-products?
The brain dead? More research on brain resuscitation? More research on comatose parameters?
Just asking.