Word: hurewitz
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...death of Mike Hurewitz, after donating half his liver to his brother, raises a question: Does the relative of a dying family member feel pressure to become a living donor [MEDICINE, Jan. 28]? You had better believe it! And the pressure isn't at all subtle; it's called love. My son needs a liver, and if mine could save his life, the odds on my survival wouldn't matter to me. What, exactly, is unethical about being allowed to take such a risk? Don't fire fighters, cops and soldiers risk their lives every day to save people they...
Mike and Adam Hurewitz grew up together on Long Island, in the suburbs of New York City. They were very close, even for brothers. So when Adam's liver started failing, Mike offered to give him half of his. The operation saved Adam's life. But Mike, who went into the hospital in seemingly excellent health, developed a complication--perhaps a blood clot--and died last week...
...Mike Hurewitz's death has prompted a lot of soul searching in the transplant community. Was it a tragic fluke or a sign that transplant surgery has reached some kind of ethical limit? The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City hospital where the complex double operation was performed, has put on hold its adult living-donor liver-transplant program, pending a review of Hurewitz's death. Mount Sinai has performed about 100 such operations in the past three years...