Not as good as it sounds. (Organ removal and donation)

Member Name: andycharger

Product:	Organ removal and donation
Date:	08/02/01 (32 review reads)
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Advantages: Saves lives

Disadvantages: Ends others

With all the trouble at the hospital in Liverpool that was storing babies organs, the whole donor issue once again rears its head.
I was once very pro donor with the idea of passing on organs after death so that another life can be saved. It all sounds very recyclable doesn't it?
But do you know the pain and suffereing donor recipients can go through after the operation?
Firstly, there is always the high risk of organ rejection. Patients who are waiting for organ replacement operations will obviously take any offer of survival put in front of them. They do not realise that if the organs do not accept the body, they will die and then be back at stage one again.
Secondly, there is a whole host of drugs the patient must take for the rest of their lives to prevent the organ being rejected. These drugs are sometimes very painful to take and often numerous. There was a case in the newspaper where the first hand transplant patient had asked the surgeon to remove it after 2 years because the rejection drugs were too expensive to buy and the hand had started to cause pain because the body was rejecting it.
There is also the moral implications remember.
These organs have to come from somewhere and that somewhere is a dead body. But not always or technically dead.
The organs like hearts can only exist so long outside of a body so the donors are normally kept alive on life support while the organs are removed. Horrid I know but true. Also, the bodies are now given something very similar to a general anaesthetic because it had been known for bodies to contort and constrict as these organs were removed in the past. Obviously very distressing to the surgeons or nurses.
It may sound unbelievable but it's true as I have a very reliable source who once worked as a theatre technician at an Essex hospital that shall remain nameless.
Maybe the research that goes on with artifically grown organs outside of the body or the idea of growing an organ from
the patient's tissue is not such a bad idea if it can be done. This would reduce the amount of pain, anguish and emotional torment that faces both donors' families and the recipient.
What must also be addressed is the fact that in other countries, the NHS is not an option.
People can auction off organs to the highest bidder.
I have read an article about women in New York who are working for a bigger crime organisation that drug clients posing as prostitutes, take them back to a hotel room and remove kidneys and other items for money.
Imagine what sort of society we live in if this sort of thing happens in UK?

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