It’s a very dangerous precedent that anyone other than a DOCTOR has any say whatsoever in this! Even the fact she’s on the adult list means rules were arbitrarily broken, rather than examined and changed, as the direct result of pressure tactics.
Allowing the appearance that a larger “cheering section” gets you any edge at all will be the downfall of the system. I, who would have accepted the risks of being written off for parts and checked the box accordingly, will be removing my name from the list come next renewal because the idea of someone “cute” getting a leg up on a nobody disgusts me.
Organ donation by “likes”...
If you can’t understand it, I can’t help you. She isn’t getting a higher place on the list. She is just getting on the list which she was denied before because of the rules. All this does is put her on the list until the rules can be reviewed in light of today’s medical advances. She was denied being put on the list because of her age not because she isn’t big enough to receive adult donor lungs. The doctors are the only one having the say in whether or not she will receive a transplant. The only say the judge had was putting her on the list so she could be considered to receive the lungs. I will try to say it one last time for clarity. SHE ISN’T GETTING LUNGS BECAUSE OF THE PRESS. SHE IS JUST GETTING THE SAME CHANCE EVERYONE OVER 12 YEARS OLD IS GETTING.