LIVER TRANSPLANT
PoliticaObscura said...
Actually, the Feds looked into the Mickey Mantle issue and the liver was properly allocated....fyi.
Ethically, they followed procedure, but even the doctors said later, had they known about his cancer before they opened him up, they would have rejected him and gave the liver to the next person on the list.
celebrity or money should never be a deciding factor when it comes to who gets the organs and who doesn't
mojoala said...
it may have been properly allocated, but they should have used some moral judgement and decided that someone else would better benefit from it instead of Mickey Mantle.
My point exactly.
posted by Kenny @ 9:46 AM
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except they didnt know about the cancer before they opened him up. so they had no choice but to give him the liver. its not like the liver is good forever, there's no preservatives. every hour that passes decreases its viability. to say that they should have closed him up and given the liver to someone else is ignorant -- you're advocating giving someone else a lower-quality organ at that point, since they don't have the #2 person ready to go-- that would take hours, hours you just don't have. They'll do better with a higher-quality organ -- let Mantle have the liver, it was too late.
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