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Organ Transplants – where the hell are we going in Britain?

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Most of us in the United Kingdom have never had any experience of the organ transplant scenario – we have never needed a transplant ourselves, nor do most of us even know of anybody who has, and certainly we predominantly haven’t had any involvement in organ donation. We mainly have been shielded from the horror […]

Foremost problem – Organ Transplant “Presumed Consent”?

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In the UK we have a major problem with organ transplant. There are just not enough human organs available to the surgeons for transplants. Why is this? Because people who die and have ‘reusable’ organs aren’t able to donate them to a living person in need (some 3,000). The biggest breakthrough in organ transplanting was […]