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Old 01-08-2008, 08:22 AM   #33
kjanyeaz1

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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
What's to stop gay people from saying they are 'clean' so to speak? What this would do is force every donor to undergo testing for HIV, and that has problems with patient confidentiality and disclosure. Shouldn't all donors be tested anyways?

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
And if someone dies from HIV contracted from an organ donation where the organisation knew there was a risk of such occurring? They would be sued to bankruptcy. It's not worth the risk, of killing a patient by cutting corners. Well, they'd definitely would need to provide informed consent of the risks here. With that could include liabiltiy waivers.

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Secondly, even if we did what Asher said, we would have an increase in unsuccessful donations, where the success rate would go down and a very small increase in the number of total donations. Is that increase worth the lower success rate? It won't solve the organ problem, and it will lower people's confidence in organ transplantation. If even one in ten organ donors change their minds, then that will have an overall negative effect. This seems more like a data presentation problem then an actual problem. We could for instance take data for both high risk operations and low risk operations.
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