I. INTRODUCTION Every two hours someone dies waiting for an organ transplant. 18 people will die each day waiting for an organ. One organ donor can save up to 8 lives. . THE NEED IS REAL In Jan 2006 I began to lose my eyesight. A year later I became a candidate for cornea tissue transplant. I am a cornea tissue transplant recipient. As a result I felt is necessary to inform you about the history and facts on organ donation and transplantation. C. Audience Adaptation – Organ transplantation
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Memorandum I am writing this memorandum to document to the hospital and my colleagues the process in which I have taken to pick a heart transplant. The decision must be made in a timely manner. However‚ it needs to be made in proficient ethic manner as well. I have 3 patients awaiting a heart transplant and will need to schedule surgery immediately after the decision is made. The three patients are Jerry a male at age 55‚ Lisa a female at age 12‚ and Ozzy a male at age 38. Jerry is a mid-level
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patient needs a kidney transplant‚ it can be a little intimidating and scary at first. The website http://www.kidney.org/ is a helpful‚ informative website for those receiving a kidney transplant‚ those who are donating one of their kidneys‚ and families of people undergoing either kidney surgery. For those who are receiving a kidney transplant there are several links to everything that a person may need to know. Such topics include: the ins and outs of what a kidney transplant is‚ information about
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do the first head transplant on a human body.They say"We are currently planning the world’s first brain transplant‚ and I consider it realistic that we will be ready in three years at the latest". The head transplant is going to happen in late of 2017.Dr I think that head or brain transplanting it’s a bad idea. The reason I believe it’s a bad idea is that if they fail they are gonna kill the guy that is getting the surgery.I think it would be harder to make a head transplant on a human‚ because
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Deciding on Organ Transplant Priorities Thinking in terms of equality‚ all people should be able to get health care in matters of life and death. However‚ while there are some people who believe that terminally ill patients who have abused their bodies should not be eligible for organ transplants‚ some others feel that it is unfair to deny life-saving help to another human being. Anyway‚ other citizens are worried about society’s limited number of donor organs and limited economic resources
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Opening up and chucking people’s liver’s into a jar for transplant hasn’t always been the case of anatomy though. It used to be that nobody had a thought on what would happen to their bodies when they died. This is why‚ during the time where the Greek had occupied Egypt‚ this one courageous man and
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many people are actually on the transplant waiting list? How many people are able to find the correct match and receive the transplant? THESIS STATEMENT: With the information I am about to give you‚ hopefully you would become a registered donor and save many lives after your death. BODY There are 120‚000 people on the waiting list to receive an organ transplant. Each day about 22 people die from either waiting or cannot find a correct match to get a transplant. In a year span over one thousand
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story of Horacio Alberto Reyes-Camarena‚ a death row inmate receiving dialysis due to kidney failure. He desires a tax-payer funded kidney transplant in order to discontinue his dialysis treatment. Regrettably‚ kidneys are in high demand with over one-hundred thousand people waiting for a kidney transplant at the beginning of this year (“Organ Donation and Transplant Statics”). The question then becomes‚ should a scarce resource‚ such a kidney‚ be given to a death row inmate? Prisoners not only should
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use. Reading many parts of the American Transplant Foundation website enables an individual to understand what it truly means to be an organ and tissue donor. It also provides them with the proper information needed to be aware of the risks that are accompanied with donating. The American Transplant Foundation offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to obtain the proper information needed when deciding whether or not to donate. The American Transplant Foundation itself is a non-profit organization
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Commercialization of Organ Transplants Kristyn Shrader Professor Business Ethics 5/3/14 As a member of the ethics committee‚ I have been asked to review the arguments for and against the commercialization of organ transplants. This report will be review these arguments and construct my suggested plan of action. Before any research was done regarding this topic‚ it is known by many that there is a shortage of available organs and those that need these transplants usually have to be
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