[HiTech RedNeck]

Well her arbitrariness (I don’t think it is being asked that a lung an adult actually CAN use will be given to the child) is bothersome even while wondering how she got put in the spot. She’s in it, now if there’s a lung the child can use that an adult can’t, do the right thing already lady.

[montanajoe]

We are dealing with limited resources here..limited organs limited funds. No matter who makes the decision there will always be those who will say the decision is arbitrary. I don’t think the problem really is with the decision maker but with the inability of so many in this country to grasp the simple fact that the country as a whole cannot possibly afford to make everybody well...

[oincobx]

>>Well her arbitrariness (I don’t think it is being asked that a lung an adult actually CAN use will be given to the child)

But that is part of the issue. She could take a lung an adult actually CAN use. And the success rate of such surgeries with children is lower because the lung has to be shaved to fit into the child.

I don't have any idea on these numbers, but suppose the success rate is say 80% for an adult receiving an adult lung, but drops to say 40% for a child receiving an adult lung. Do you consider that at all in the equation of who gets this scarce resource?