Word: organ
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Luckily for Dole, his age actually works in his favor. Because prostate cancer usually grows so slowly in older men, even if a tiny malignant cell had escaped from Dole's prostate before the organ was removed and had seeded another tumor elsewhere in his body, chances are excellent that he would still die with prostate cancer, as opposed to from it. "You can't guarantee a 100% cure," says Dr. Gerald Chodak, director of the Prostate/Urology Center at University of Chicago Hospital. "But the odds are very much in his favor." In Chodak's opinion, Dole could...
...monetary compensation includes placing a potential donor higher on a list of organ recipients should he or she ever need a transplant, or providing services such as grief counseling to the families of organ donors. Although it seems a much better plan than monetary compensation, it still bears some flaws...
Most importantly, preferential treatment for organ donors is unfair to those morally opposed to organ donation. Their thoughts must be taken into account as well. Hospital cannot treat them with any less respect by denying certain services provided to the families of organ donors. Non-monetary compensation also tarnishes the image of organ donation--organ donors make a gift to society; society does not have a right to those organs. By marring the public's view of organ donation, we may see a decrease in potential donors. We cannot ignore the individual's rights in trying to provide...
...that increase may have come at the expense of some opposed to donation. Organ donations is a moral gift to society because of the way it is now administered. We now treat the donation as an act of pure benevolence. Should this image be tainted in any way, organ donation will lose respectability in the eyes of the public--the same public which supplies the gift. In the long run, the plan could precipitate a marked decrease in donations...
There is always a marked increase after a public appeal is made on the behalf of an individual by the media. Donations increase as a whole, not just for the individual. Also, once request for organ donation became required by law on the part of physicians, donations also went up. Many families feel that they can take some good from an incredible tragedy. To force these same people to donate is to underestimate the generosity of the public in a grave way. Should the media make a greater effort, organ donation will increase to a level sufficient to stave...