And why pray tell are not organs screened for diseases before being transplanted?
Just asking.
Papers please. < /sarc >
” ... why pray tell are not organs screened for diseases..”
They are. This woman’s cancer hadn’t been diagnosed and wasn’t found till they did her autopsy. Transplants have to be done within 24 hours of the donor’s passing.
If you read the article it addresses testing that is done within the limited time frame. They also list the exceedingly low number of deaths from diseased organs compared to the restored lives.
When it was discovered the donor had cancer, the recipient was notified, with the assumption that it would not transfer to him; he chose not to have the kidney removed.
I’d have an awfully hard time finding for the plaintiff, as tragic as this is, unless there are factors (as there inevitably are) that aren’t available.
It almost reads like ‘no good deed goes unpunished.’
They are, but its an expanding list and the tests are highly specific. That's why the gays are so crazy in asking to donate blood. For every virus you catch, there's people that will die because you miss things that haven't made the screening list yet.
That would be profiling. Try to keep up! ;-P