Word: organ-donor
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DEFINITION pri-zoomd ken-sent n. A government policy under which a person's consent to donate organs after death is automatically presumed unless the person explicitly opts out. The policy removes the need for organ-donor cards or even family approval...
...want to become a donor, how can you make sure your wishes are carried out? Just checking the box on your driver's license or carrying an organ-donor card is often not enough. The consent of your family may also be required (and as the Terri Schiavo case showed, it's not always easy for everyone to reach agreement...
...egregiously? Fulkerson says the procedures that should prevent such errors broke down twice: when the surgeon, Dr. James Jaggers, instead of checking, assumed that the blood type of the donated organs matched Jesica's and when he failed to verbally confirm that assumption with Carolina Donor Services, the organ-donor agency. "Jesica's case has clearly sent a warning to transplant centers," says Dr. David Yuh, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where the transplant staff is double-checking its own organ-matching processes...
...them just the right kick in just the right direction, each could become a liver, a heart, a brain or a bone. When a team from the University of Wisconsin announced their discovery last fall, doctors around the world looked forward to a new era of medicine--one without organ-donor shortages or the tissue-rejection problems that bedevil transplant patients today...
...next crew departing for the "Level Above Human," I suggest that before leaving their "containers" or bodies behind, they fill out some organ-donor cards. STEFAN VLADESCU New York City...