United States‚ someone needs a blood transfusion‚ 95% of all American will need a blood transfusion at some point in their lives. Whether it is used to help an accident victim‚ an organ donor recipient or a patient with cancer‚ more than 38‚000 blood donations are needed in hospitals every day around the country. Every single pint of blood that is donated contributes towards preserving someone ’s life. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood. If everyone that is qualified to donate gave
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Legalize Organ Sales In MacKay’s essay‚ “Organ Sales Will Save Lives‚” she states that legalizing the sale of human organs will save millions of lives. Instead of prohibiting the sale of human organs‚ she believes the government should make it legal and manage the process. Kidney transplantation or dialysis is the only treatments available for people suffering from renal failure (MacKay 157). Dialysis is temporary and it has horrific side effects. Whereas‚ a kidney transplant offers a permanent
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Because the need for organs is always present in our society‚ illegal organ trafficking is current and goes on every single day. At the same time‚ people who are legally and patiently waiting for an organ die in the process. Data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) shows that in 2010 alone‚ there were 90‚000 patients waiting for a life-saving organ. From those on the waiting lists‚ there were only 17‚000 transplants performed that year. About 10‚500 of them were from dead donors while
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“Every ten minutes‚ someone is added to the national transplant waiting list. On average‚ twenty people die each day while waiting for a transplant” (1). One solution for the shortage of transplantable organs is creating long-lasting engineered devices that can be implanted into human beings with the purpose to replicate the function of a natural organ. Researchers have continually developed bioartificial organs that have functioned well enough to sustain life until a real organ is available. However
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Blood. Blood was the first thing that I had seen when I walked in to the E.R. of NYHQ in Flushing‚ Queens. A young man‚ about the age of 25‚ had been injured in a car accident. There was blood running down the left side of his face. This reminded me of one of my favorite television series‚ "HOUSE‚" the only difference was that this was reality. I was standing in the middle of the emergency room in a real hospital‚ a hospital full of real sick people. Community service means much more to me than
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Saving Lives When Is It Ethical The decision to be an organ donor is not an easy decision to make‚ but the donor has the easiest part of the donation process. The decision of when to extract the organs usually falls on the family and the attending physician. The question since organ donation began has always been when are you really dead? This one question has been an ongoing controversy not only with the public‚ but with churches‚ and the government as well. The government has tried to put rules
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Case Teaching Resources FROM THE EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Box 353055 · University of W ashington · Seattle W A 98195-3055 www.hallway.org Science‚ Discrimination‚ and the Blood Supply: San José State University’s Blood Drive Ban San José State University Suspends Campus Blood Drives On January 29‚ 2008‚ Don W. Kassing‚ President of San José State University (SJSU)‚ announced that he was suspending indefinitely all blood drives taking place on the SJSU campus‚ plus any drives
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declaring that the solution to human organ transplants is solved. A new idea and practice that will involve every individual to have an option to both save their life‚ as well as the life of another human being. The new solution for human transplant and donation involves the legalization of selling human organs on the open market. In hindsight‚ this seems to answer all the problems of organ donning‚ and
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the lives of others” (Pericles). Organ donation is the process of one human being donating his or her organs to another human being in need. Which is very often since on average 22 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. With that being said every 10 minutes a patient is added to the waiting list. While on the waiting list there is no guarantee that the patient will receive a transplant. To top it off there is a 1:8 ratio with organ donation. That means mean one organ donor can save
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Give (at least) a Heart Organ donation is such a simple and selfless action one takes to save the lives of others. The pros of declaring oneself as a donor far outweigh the cons‚ for nearly 90% of Americans claim to support donation. Only 30%‚ however‚ know how to or actually become donors‚ according to Donate Life America; so‚ what steers people away? Many avoid declaring themselves as organ donors because there are many misconceptions to the process of organ donation. Some believe that a hospital
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