Smoker's Lungs Donation

[Foxrac]

i do like UK but i dont like any hospital trust but i want trust hospital than failure..

Yup, you can option for private health care in UK, more safer than NHS but cost more, make sure if you have high paying job.

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

I hope it doesn't happen in America in the near future.

Won't happen. Canada's healthcare is similar to the NHS, but we don't have the horror stories that the Brits get.

My friend needs a kidney transplant, but because he's a diabetic, the system is making him want for a dual pancreas-kidney transplant because Alberta's healthcare doesn't want to be replacing another kidney in five years... if they can fix his diabetes with a new pancreas.

So after 3 years of being on the waiting list, he's scheduled to go in for a pancreas-kidney transplant in the summer. If he just wanted a kidney, he would had gotten a new one within a month of his kidney failures, however his diabetes would have caused his newly donated kidney to fail within 6 months to five years. Hence pancreas-kidney transplant (which is EXTREMELY rare to come by a healthy pair.)

This is the fault of the British guideline, not universal healthcare.

 

[Reba]

I found out yesterday that a mom of one of our Christian school students needs a liver transplant. Her condition is so critical that she was moved to the top of the waiting list. The first liver offered had cancer, so she couldn't use that. The second and third livers had hepatitis, so she couldn't use those. They can't wait, so they will take a piece of her husband's liver, and hope that it will regenerate in her body.

 

[Jiro]

I found out yesterday that a mom of one of our Christian school students needs a liver transplant. Her condition is so critical that she was moved to the top of the waiting list. The first liver offered had cancer, so she couldn't use that. The second and third livers had hepatitis, so she couldn't use those. They can't wait, so they will take a piece of her husband's liver, and hope that it will regenerate in her body.

sorry to hear but yea... it's a very icky situation. a situation as dire as this... should we give her "tainted" liver just to prolong her life?

 

[Steel X]

no no. it was LEGAL for them to use smoker's lungs for lung transplant. HORRIFYING!

Still, that is pretty stupid. knowing that unhealthy organs don't really help much to make you live as long as healthy organs do.

 

[Jiro]

Still, that is pretty stupid. knowing that unhealthy organs don't really help much to make you live as long as healthy organs do.

I know but what if you have no choice (no available healthy organ and you will die very soon)? is it still "ok" to use tainted organ just so you can have a little extra time while you wait for available healthy organ?

IMO - that's unethical

 

[Reba]

I know but what if you have no choice (no available healthy organ and you will die very soon)? is it still "ok" to use tainted organ just so you can have a little extra time while you wait for available healthy organ?

IMO - that's unethical

The waiting patient isn't allowed to use a "tainted" organ in the USA. The surgical team won't accept the organ for transplantation.

 

[Jiro]

The waiting patient isn't allowed to use a "tainted" organ in the USA. The surgical team won't accept the organ for transplantation.

yes and it has been like that for a very long time and that policy won't change anytime soon (and some people actually think it would happen under Obamacare). I'm surprised that NHS allows this nefarious practice.