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>And yet when I suggest we might try harder to help people keep their own organs more functional in that case, I'm generally given all kinds of flak Brilliant!
by andrepd 4y ago
>And yet when I suggest we might try harder to help people keep their own organs more functional in that case, I'm generally given all kinds of flak
Brilliant! Why did nobody think of that /s
Major organ transplants are pretty much only performed on people for whom it is the last resort. In fact, there are not enough organs to do transplants on everybody who would need it, let alone waste on people who don't.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoI'm abundantly familiar with this. Seriously. And, no, we don't try hard enough. There is lots of room for improvement.
- Pepe1vo 4y ago> There is lots of room for improvement. Like what? I feel for the majority of transplant cases the answer is going to be along the lines of "you shouldn't have gotten (into an accident|leukemia)" which is technically true yet at the same time very unhelpful.