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Arizona man is first to take artificial heart home
- btilly 16y agoRandom macabre tip. If you live in the USA and need an organ transplant, you may want to consider moving to Florida. The reason is that Florida allows motorcyclists to ride without helmets. This results in a supply of fresh corpses with no history of health problems that most other states cannot match. Furthermore the Mayo Clinic is there where world-class medical staff can perform the operation at reasonable (for the US) rates. (I learned this from a dental assistant whose fiance had needed a transplant. On the advice of his doctor they moved to Florida, and a few months later were able to move back to California after a successful organ transplant.)
- melling 16y agohttp://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/motorcycle-helmets-and-donor-organs/ http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/motorcycle-helmet...
- amalcon 16y agoNew Hampshire also does not have helmet laws, and the several world-class hospitals in Boston are on the order of an hour away. It's probably not as good a choice as Florida if all other things are equal, but it's a similar situation.
- khafra 16y agoFlorida has the advantage of a huge population of senile drivers with poor vision.
- icey 16y agoMany states have similar helmet laws to Florida's: http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx
- dminor 16y agoDoctors with a darker sense of humor have been known on occasion to call them "donorcycles".