Transplant
I’m passionate about organ transplants in Australia and I reckon you should be as well.
Australia has had a terrible history of underperformance when it comes to organ and tissue transplants when compared with most other developed countries.
It has simply been un-Australian. The bottom line is that lives have been lost unnecessarily. Fortunately there are early signs we’re starting to turn that disgraceful underperformance around. But a lot more needs to be done. A lot more. And each and everyone of you has a role to play.
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Many of us are aware that there’s a desperate shortage of organ donation in Australia.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that thousands have died on waiting lists.
And yet we still have one of the lowest donation rates in the developed world.
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TB says:
The issue of organ donation is on the verge of becoming a moot point. Researchers have already successfully grown human organs for transplantation, and without having to use stem cells to boot. Why risk receiving a donor organ and subjecting yourself to immunosuppresants for years on end when a brand… Read more »
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Lucy says:
hmmm… a couple of years ago when I was an undergrad I would have been stoked for a few hundred for a kidney… Read more »
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