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Ethical Issues Of Organ Donation

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Currently, there is a much longer list of people who need a functioning organ compared to people who are organ donors. If there are not enough people willing to donate their organs, then how do we decide who receives the organs being donated? Although there are many beliefs towards how a receiver should be chosen to receive a donated organ, the healthier more beneficial candidate should receive it.
Already, there is a complex system to choosing who receives donated organs. John A. Robertson’s article, “Supply and Distribution of Hearts for Transplantation: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues”, takes readers through the steps of the allocated system. Before being put on the list of waiting candidates, a person must first be seen as someone who …show more content…

“Supply and Distribution of Hearts for Transplantation: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues”, as told at the beginning of this paper, explains that every person who could be a possible candidate for a transplant has to go through a complexed allocated system that will let doctors know who will use the organ to its full potential. Summarizing, “Rates and Risk Factors for Nonadherence to the Medical Regimen After Adult Solid Organ Transplantation” there are cases when a organ does not get used to its full potential because the patient did not follow doctor instructions. If a person is shown to be untrustworthy or has a not so good medical background then, of course, the organ should be given to someone who will use its full life …show more content…

According to “Rates and Risk Factors for Nonadherence to the Medical Regimen After Adult Solid Organ Transplantation”, “1 to 4 cases per 100 patients per year for substance use (tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs), to 19 to 25 cases per 100 for nonadherence to immunosuppressants, diet, exercise, and other healthcare requirements”. 1 to 4 patients out of 100 waste the full potential use of their new organ because they drink or use drugs, and 19 to 25 patients out of 100 waste their organ to the lack of needed diet and exercise. Those organs could have been donated to another candidate who would have used them to their full potential. Kurt Laederach-Hofmann and Brigitta Bunzel state in their article “Noncompliance in organ transplant recipients: a literature review”, that anywhere between 20 and 50 percent of donated organ receivers fail to follow a doctor's orders which takes away from the full potential use of that

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