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RE: Best wishes to Steve...
By dagamer34 on 6/21/2009 6:14:31 PM , Rating: 2
Incorrect about the psych profile. I had a med school lecture a couple of weeks ago about what all goes into who gets what organ and the transplant service does NOT consider factors like that (crazy, I know). They also don't consider how you got to be in the condition you are in either, or whether you were an alcoholic in your past life or not, or your ability to adhere to treatments.

Now, before you go spouting how wrong that is, there is a "flip side". While the transplant service that determines who gets an organ does NOT consider those things, the actual surgeon who DOES the procedure can (though it is more in relation to "I'm not going to do a transplant on you because you won't follow through with the after-transplant therapy" rather than the belief that a person is "bad").

Also, liver's aren't as in demand as kidneys. You can survive without any working kidneys for a while, but with the liver, you only have ONE. And it's quite easy to kill your kidneys (which is why they are in such high demand).

Other things to point out:
1) Average wait for a kidney is about 1-2 years.
2) Average wait for a liver is a couple of months.

Plus, there's also a whole host of factors that goes into figuring out who gets what organ or not. It's not as simple as because you've waiting for X period of time, you are going to get one.

RE: Best wishes to Steve...


