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This is probably the most concrete “I had no idea it worked that way” this year for me. So you can collect kidneys!
by Waterluvian 3y ago
This is probably the most concrete “I had no idea it worked that way” this year for me. So you can collect kidneys!
- Suzuran 3y agoThey only remove them if they have some kind of immediate risk of damage to the body - Necrosis or similar. On top of that, while your original kidneys won't have enough function to sustain life, any function they do have will take some burden off of the transplant kidney(s).
- Waterluvian 3y agoIt makes complete sense once I think about it. My mental framing is too often based on technology. Ie. there’s two kidney slots that you can populate with one kidney each.
- Suzuran 3y agoIf it helps, you can think of all medicine as reverse-engineering and hacking a machine the vendor has ceased supporting and won't provide documentation for.