Chapter 16 : Allocation of Resources: Scarcity and Triage |
Section 5. Case Study Child_Parent_Donor Name: Samantha Sparta Case Title: Garcia Kidney Transplant Description of the case by student: A Frio County Judge Carlos Garcia is receiving the gift of life when his daughter, Missy Garcia, donates her kidney to her father. Carlos Garcia suffers from polycystic kidney disease and desperately needed an organ transplant. Missy never told her father that she had started the testing process to see if she was a match until she found out for sure that she was a perfect match for him. URL?s for the articles describing the case: Article describing case http://organtx.org/ Article describing kidney donation process http://www.kidneytransplant.org/patientguide/donor.html Article describing the future of organ donation http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_859000/859959.stm Article describing organ transplant system chronology http://www.upmc.edu/NewsBureau/tx/chronology.htm URL?s for articles with ethical position: Article containing religious views on organ transplant http://www.lhsc.on.ca/transplant/religatt.htm London Health Science Centre in Canada describes ethics behind organ transplant http://www.lhsc.on.ca/transplant/ethics.htm Health Resources and Services Administration discuss ethics http://newsroom.hrsa.gov/Speeches/OrganOhio.htm BBC News article concerning ethics with organ transplants http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_388000/388260.stm
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