Notes from an Organ Recipient: Once is Enough
In this paper, the author describes her personal experiences with liver disease and the challenges both before and after receiving an organ transplant. She describes how organs are currently allocated and offers her perspective on what fairness entails in situations where organs fail and patients ne...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 400-402 |
| Further subjects: | B
organ allocation fairness
B liver transplants B Organ Transplantation B MELD score |
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| Summary: | In this paper, the author describes her personal experiences with liver disease and the challenges both before and after receiving an organ transplant. She describes how organs are currently allocated and offers her perspective on what fairness entails in situations where organs fail and patients need multiple organs. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180121001092 |