“Free-Market” Approach to Organ Donation

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To the Editor: The art and science of transplantation have progressed dramatically in the past 10 years. Through advances in tissue typing, surgical technique, immunosuppressive drugs, and patient care before and after transplantation, success rates in organ replacement have continuously improved — a development that has focused professional and public attention on organ transplantation in general and on the supply of donor organs in particular.Today, the supply of cadaveric organs is clearly inadequate to meet the demands of a rapidly improving transplantation technology. It is estimated that only 10 per cent or less of all suitable cadaveric organs . . .

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