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ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION 2
Organ Transplantation
Organ transplant has been welcomed as one of the highest accomplishments of
present surgery (Linden, 2009). An organ transplant is a surgical procedure where a damaged
or diseased organ in the human body is replaced or removed with a new one. The word
“organ transplant” describes the transplants of the solid organs such as lungs, pancreas, heart,
kidneys, intestines, and liver. Each day around 22 people in the United States passes away
anticipating organ transplants. The demises are mainly catastrophic as they could have been
stopped if more organs were accessible. Each day tough decisions have to be made regarding
who will die and who will live. With over 100,000 people on the waiting files for livers,
intestines, kidneys, lungs, hearts, and other organs, the weight of distributing limited organs
equally and acquiring means of increasing their stock is enormous. The pressure is becoming
worse since waiting lists are growing faster than the organ supply. If the transplant centers
were to lower their standards to involve additional people, such as those who have no
insurance, undocumented immigrants, have severe intellectual disabilities, prisoners, older
persons, and foreigners who cannot obtain transplants in their countries, then the record of
those expecting could easily triplicate or quadruple.
The procedure of organ allocation takes place in a complex regulatory, legal, and
organizational matrix. The many components of this matrix which coincides and,
occasionally, seemingly diverges or, at the very least, fail to go together include, the federal
law and regulations, state law and regulations, and transplant specialists. They include
physicians who assess and place patients on the waiting lists for organs and who carry out
transplant surgery. Also, the organ procurement and allocation policies declared by the
federally created Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the United
Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which functions OPTN under contract with the federal
government. These policies describe the processes applied in organ allocation all through the

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Running head: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Organ Transplantation Name Institution 1 ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION 2 Organ Transplantation Organ transplant has been welcomed as one of the highest accomplishments of present surgery (Linden, 2009). An organ transplant is a surgical procedure where a damaged or diseased organ in the human body is replaced or removed with a new one. The word “organ transplant” describes the transplants of the solid organs such as lungs, pancreas, heart, kidneys, intestines, and liver. Each day around 22 people in the United States passes away anticipating organ transplants. The demises are mainly catastrophic as they could have been stopped if more organs were accessible. Each day tough decisions have to be made regarding who will die and who will live. With over 100,000 people on the waiting files for livers, intestines, kidneys, lungs, hearts, and other organs, the weight of distributing limited organs equally and acquiring means of increasing their stock is enormous. The pressure is becoming worse since waiting lists are growing faster than the organ supply. If the transplant centers were to lower their standards to involve additional people, such as those who have no insurance, undocumented immigrants, have severe intellectual disabilities, prisoners, older persons, and foreigners who cannot obtain transplants in their countries, then the record of those expecting could easily triplicate or quadruple. The procedure of organ allocation takes place i ...
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