The severe shortage of viable organs for transplantation in the U.S. has led a transplant surgeon to propose harvesting kidneys from people who are not dead yet….”Though not dead yet, they are ‘as good as dead’ from an ethical perspective,” wrote Franklin Miller, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, along with Dr. Robert Truog, a professor of medical ethics, anesthesiology and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Good Morning America
“Surgeon: Remove Kidneys for Transplant Before Donor’s Death”
June 5, 2012
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