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The Pros And Cons Of Successful Organ Transplants

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It was December 23rd, 1954, when the first successful organ transplant took place. Dr. Joseph Murray had been the very first doctor to carry out a successful kidney transplant, resulting in him being rewarded with the Nobel Prize. This surgery set a milestone for future technology in the medical field and started the phenomenon of future of organ transplants. With the many failures from a variety of doctors over the world and the research conducted by Dr. Joseph Murray along with other doctors and scientists, over time doctors were able to improve the quality of the technology for patients waiting on an organ to save their life. New organ transplant technology has saved many lives of people with life threatening illnesses.
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This is because almost all organ transplants are now successful. It only takes one person to save up to eight lives, not including the donation of tissue, which can actually improve up to 50 lives. As technology continues to improve, the demand for healthy organ donors has increased significantly. More than 10,0000 people remain on a waiting list for an organ transplant. In fact, many people often die waiting on an organ because there are so many people in need, but there are not enough donors to go around. "On average, 18 people die every day while waiting for organ transplants in the U.S., and every 10 minutes, another name is added to the waiting list. In New York State, someone dies every 18 hours waiting for an organ transplant." (Blue Fountain Media). This shows that even though organ transplants are now successful, there are still many people dying each day because they are forced to wait on an organ. Due to this, doctors continue to find new ways possible to save someone's life that does not use another human. This will surely save more lives since many people will not have to wait on an organ from a …show more content…

Since the amount of people waiting on an organ is greater than the amount of those willing to donate, other options for receiving an organ will soon be available to those who do not have enough time to be placed on a waiting list. Scientists and doctors came to the conclusion that if they can figure out a way to stop the human body from rejecting animal organs, the frequency of deaths by organ failure will dramatically decrease. "Researchers at Harvard University report in a new study that they have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique to enable pig-to-human organ transplantation without disease transfer, which could help lessen the number of patients who do not receive an organ transplant because of shortages." (Wallace). Which shows that in the future, the need for organ donors will not be as much of a necessity as it is now. With technology improving, the death rate will drop significantly for those who are not able to acquire an organ from a human donor. Surgeries using body parts from animals can be risky to those who will be willing to be a test subject, patients in the past who received organs from animals were known to only live a couple of days after the transplant. Luckily scientists are able to see what went wrong by using past failures to help them with future organ transplants using

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