Hot Topics: Organ Transplant & Donation
You can read this editorial and other articles in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics.
by José R.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
A ProPublica investigation discovered a pattern in some transplant patients at Newark Beth Israel Hospital (NJ): In a few cases, patients were kept in the ICU for one year after transplant and then quickly sent to a long-term care facility where they died.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Few people would say that the system of payment and organ distribution is perfect. About 37 million Americans suffer from kidney disease and 94,831 are candidates (as of July 10, 2019) for kidney transplant.…
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Exploring ethical issues in medical dramas
The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abuse; Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 20): Violating a patient’s autonomy; organ trafficking
The Resident (Season 2; Episode 23): Unrepresented patient and substance abuse
A middle-aged man comes to the ER unable to speak and without ID.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Exploring bioethical issues in television medical dramas
New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA; The Resident (Season 2; Episode 22): Organ buying; Grey’s Anatomy(Season 15; Episode 23): Insurance Fraud
New Amsterdam (Season 1; Episode 19): Privatizing the VA
A veteran has a stroke while driving and injures a police officer.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
In the last few years, the hospital where I serve on the ethics committee has seen a dramatic uptick in the number of patients placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).…
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by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimental chemical solution to create electrical activity in the cells of pig brains, brains obtained from a slaughterhouse four hours after the death of the animals from decapitation (NY Times ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs, 4/17,19). …
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“Examining ethical issues in TV medical dramas”
Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 15): Insurance Fraud and Endangering Patients in Pursuit of Profit; Jump to The Good Doctor (Season 2; Episode 15): The Risk of Looking, Pediatric Decision-Making; Jump to Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 15): Racism
The Resident (Season 2; Episode 15): Insurance Fraud and Endangering Patients in Pursuit of Profit
Milo Trainor comes to the ED with severe backpain.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 13): A risky organ transplant; Jump to The Good Doctor (Season 2; Episode 14):Face Transplant; Jump to Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 13): Suspecting the worst; HIV safety or stigmatization; Suspicion and stealing from patients; Jump to Greys Anatomy (Season 15; Episode 12): Removing Dying Patient’s Autonomy
The Resident (Season 2; Episode 13): A risky organ transplant
Eloise is a third year medical student in need of a double lung transplant as a result of her cystic fibrosis.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Jump to The Good Doctor (Season 2; Episode 7): Directed donation; Jump to Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 8): DNR Tattoos and Ethics Committees
As many of our favorite medical dramas head to their fall finales, they focused more on sentimental stories in the personal lives of characters, or feel good cases that did not raise any ethical issues.…
Full ArticleLegal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death Determination
Should Lack of Social Support Prevent Access to Organ Transplantation?
Why It is Important to Consider Social Support When Assessing Organ Transplant Candidates?
Framing the diagnosis and treatment of absolute uterine factor infertility: Insights from in-depth interviews with uterus transplant trial participants
Uterus Transplantation: The Ethics of Using Deceased Versus Living Donors
On Gender and Reproductive Decision-Making in Uterine Transplantation
Patient perspectives on compensation for biospecimen donation
Ahead of Our Time: Why Head Transplantation Is Ethically Unsupportable
Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at U.S. transplant centers
Caring for Patients or Organs: New Therapies Raise New Dilemmas in the Emergency Department
Are brain-like organoids a future in research? “The findings, published in Science on 11 February, could help scientists to understand the genetic pathways that allowed human brains to evolve.”
Full ArticleMore than 250,000 people in the U.S. are currently at the end stages of heart failure, up to 15% of whom are in desperate need of a transplant. A new method of “reanimating” donor hearts from those who have died from cardiac failure is currently being tested in the U.S., and may soon ease that burden.
Full ArticleIn 2013, Robert Chelsea was hit by a drunk driver and sustained third-degree burns on more than half of his body. Nearly six years later, he became the first African American recipient of a full face transplant.
Full ArticleThe rare operation has implications for wounded soldiers, accident victims, cancer patients and those undergoing sex reassignment.
Full ArticleIf Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.
But the local organ collection agency said no. It gave no reason, no explanation to his family, though the Connecticut man appeared to be a well-qualified donor despite advancing age.
Full ArticleDarryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. But, hardly consulting his family, doctors kept him alive for a year to avoid federal scrutiny.
Full ArticleOpen conflict broke out among U.S. liver transplant centers this week, with doctors and patients in less populous parts of the country seeking a contempt of court order against the Health and Human Services Department and the nonprofit organization that runs the transplant system.
Full ArticleA group of patients waiting for liver transplants and hospitals have filed suit to block new rules they contend will reduce their access to the life-sustaining organs by transferring hundreds to medical centers in large cities, where the demand is higher.
Full ArticleChina stands accused of a gruesome trade in human organs. It’s difficult to prove, because the victims’ bodies are disposed of and the only witnesses are the doctors, police and prison guards involved. Even so, the evidence supports a damning verdict.
Full ArticlePatients receiving new kidneys and livers must take damaging anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. Now researchers hope to train the immune system instead of just tamping it down.
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