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...heart surgeries and two operations to clear his arteries. Four years ago, he was put on a waiting list for a transplant. But early in the morning of Aug. 18, he was bumped to the front of the line. His daughter Patti -- a nursing student who carried an organ-donor card, had communicated to her family her wish to be a donor and even drove a car with a bumper sticker promoting donations -- had been thrown from a car when it hit a rock wall on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The vacation, said her brother...
Every organ donation brings with it wrenching questions for the families involved, all of which have to be answered within hours of the death of a loved one. Would the donor really have wanted the organ to leave her body? Would the operation put the life of the recipient at greater risk? In this case, the two families were the same, but there was a deeper implication that was particularly discomforting: Can you take your own child's heart, to feel and hear it beat day after...
...long line for someone to provide a heart for the transplant he desperately needed to survive. He finally won a new lease on life last week, but from a singularly tragic source. His daughter Patti, 22, was fatally injured in a car crash, long after signing an organ-donor card, thus allowing surgeons to put her compatible heart in her father's body...
...liver, the more it becomes a part of you, and you a part of it," says Dr. Andrew Klein, a liver- transplant specialist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Transplant surgeons admit they are among the most aggressive at trying to keep death at bay. "Considering the severe shortage of donor organs, I think there is a moral obligation to take care of the organ you receive as best you can," says Klein. He allows, though, that preserving an organ should not take precedence over preserving some semblance of pleasure in life...
...School of Public Health doesn't have a bigalumni donor base, so we hope to broaden thatbase." Menshel says. "So, far things are goingwell...