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A continuing problem exists in trying to close the gap between the supply and demand of procured organs in the United States. An increase in the amount of transplant operations performed has risen significantly over time. As a result, a new name is added to the national waiting list every 16 minutes (Duan, Gibbons, & Meltzer, 2000). It is estimated that about 100,000 individuals are on the national transplant waiting list at all times (Munson, 2012). Something needs to be done before these numbers get completely out of control. Despite the introduction of Gift of Life and many other educational efforts, the United

It was only a matter of time before a businessman in Virginia saw a way to profit from the success of transplantation. In 1983 H. Barry Jacobs announced the opening of a new exchange through which competent adults could buy and sell organs. His failing was in his decision to use needy immigrants as the source of the organs (Pence 36). As a result Congress, passed the National Organ Transplant Act (Public Law 98-507) in 1984, which prohibited the sale of human organs and violators would be subjected to fines and imprisonment (“Donation Details”).

The need of human organs for transplantation increases every single day and every passing month. Thousands of people are on the waiting list hoping for a chance at a new life. Unfortunately, the supply of available organs through organ donations is not able to provide for the growing demand of organs. According to a research conducted by the Hasting Center, “there are close to 100,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney, heart, liver, lung, and intestines, the pressure to find ways to increase their supply is enormous (Capland, 2014, p. 214). The shortage of human organs is leading people to participate in unethical acts. The pressure of finding available organs has resulted in healthcare professional and

The article “Need an Organ? It Helps to be Rich,” by Joy Victory informs readers of how medical systems work for those who are in need of an organ transplant. In the article, Victory talks about a 34-year-old man named Brian Shane Regions - who is in need of a heart transplant, but is not able to secure one because he is not insured. Therefore, not having insurance, Brian is put into an unfortunate situation because he is simply not getting any treatment for his heart failure. This is a great example of how patients without insurance could not be provided with an organ donor. Victory argues a variety of issues concerning how the organ donation system is unfair to certain people. A transplant cost a bundle amount of money, which leads to the rich only able to have the procedure done. While the poor cannot afford the cost of the transplant, creating an unfair situation for the less fortunate. The transplant centers can do anything as they please because they simply care more about the money. However, not all transplant centers treat their patients unfairly, several centers are truly able to support the uninsured patients in need of a transplant. It is simply unfair for the patients, who do not have enough money to pay for transplant and the medical systems are unethical.

The shortage of organ transplants has been an ongoing crisis for years; the growing list of patients awaiting transplants has no end in sight, and the number of people dying while they waste away on the waiting list is not going to go down unless something changes.Society has turned away from alternatives to our archaic organ donation program, but there are other options available.The transplant community and society as a whole need to step back and rethink--to adopt a more open-minded views on organs as a resource in order to save lives and make meaningful changes to the national transplant program.

Emigrated from the Philippines, the moment I step into the American soil, I knew that I was given an opportunity to serve and contribute my unique view of the world. Aside from having a degree in Accounting, my Public Affair major with Public Management specialty, will allow me to

Discuss a significant issue in your home country about which you are passionate and describe how you would use the education you obtain at our institution, American University (AU), Washington, DC, to create positive civic and social change once you return home. Please provide specific examples.

I was excited to learn about the numerous internship opportunities that are offered by the Center for American Progress. I have a very strong interest and to contribute to the mission and values that this policy institute presents as well as gain knowledge from work and research being done. I firmly believe that I can support the goals Center for American Progress and that my experience aligns with what you’re looking for.

It is estimated that there are 123,000 people in the United States are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. The state of Arizona accounts for at least 2,400 of these individuals. Working as a patient care technician allowed me to put faces to these statistics. I had numerous patients who were desperately waiting to receive the gift of life. I will never forget the murky yellow tinted skin and sclerae of my patient desperately awaiting a liver transplant. His life and future completely reliant on the generosity of a fellow human. The greatest problem facing patient’s like the one aforementioned is the national shortage of organs. With each patient encounter, I became passionate about finding a way to increase the number of organ donors. I believe the solution

In the United States today, people lose their lives to many different causes. Though this is tragic, there are also a large group of people who could benefit from these deaths; and those people are people in need of an organ transplant. Although a sudden or tragic death can be heart breaking to a family, they could feel some relief by using their loved ones' organs to save the lives of many others. This act of kindness, though, can only be done with consent of both the victim and the family; making the donation of organs happen much less than is needed. The need for organs is growing every day, but the amount provided just is not keeping up. Because of the great lack of organ donors, the constant need for organs,

In February 2003, 17-year-old Jesica Santillan received a heart-lung transplant at Duke University Hospital that went badly awry because, by mistake, doctors used donor organs from a patient with a different blood type. The botched operation and subsequent unsuccessful retransplant opened a discussion in the media, in internet chat rooms, and in ethicists' circles regarding how we, in the United States, allocate the scarce commodity of organs for transplant. How do we go about allocating a future for people who will die without a transplant? How do we go about denying it? When so many are waiting for their shot at a life worth living, is it fair to grant multiple organs or multiple

Previously organ donation has encountered organ donors and organ supply rejections. Organ donation challenges and demands decreased as the organ shortages increase over the years. Organ donation mission is to save many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives, the significance of the organ donation is to give back to restore one’s quality of life. The ongoing issues may present an idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result organ donation mission is to restore organs for their patients and to promote, education, to empower altruism, and quality ethics as a resource for existing and potential donors. Organ donations have been perceived by potential organ donors to be inhumane activity, dishonor a humanized process, circulation of illegal revenue, existing donors, and conceptual grounds as a resort consistently with altruism as the empowered outcome.

Each year, thousands of people die while waiting for organ transplantation and hundreds of research studies examining the possible genetic causes of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases are ended, both due to the lack of donated organs. Often times, we do not realize how much of a difference we can make to this issue, simply by becoming organ donors and donating our organs after death. This is the idea Snyder, Van Assche et al., and Kluge are trying to make in their articles. It is important to recognize how pathos, ethos, and logos are used in writing to understand the ways in which the author is persuading the readers to agree with their argument. In “Easy Rescues and Organ Transplantation”, “Governing the Postmortem Procurement of Human Body Material for Research”, and “Improving Organ Retrieval Rates”, Snyder, Van Assche et al., and Kluge use somber and earnest word choices and provide anecdotal evidence to inform the audience of the ethics that need to be involved in order to create a more successful system of organ donation.

Organ donation is one of the most impactful decisions one can make to directly improve another’s life. In the United States, the donor or his or her family make this decision and leave it in the hands of doctors and trained teams to make sure the organs go to those who are well deserving and need them most. The responsibility of the transplant and faith is put into the current system, which should allow for fair distribution of organs. This, however, is not always the case and a possible change to the system has triggered an ethical dilemma involving several stakeholders.

One of the most astonishing miracles of modern medicine is the ability to successfully transplant human organs. This can give someone a second chance to live, or simply have a better life than they ever thought possible. One of the greatest road blocks when it comes to people being organ donors is the lack of information, and the misinformation that surround organ donation. And because of this, the number of people on the donor list compared to the amount of donors is terribly unbalanced. Although there is a misconception that a doctor may not try as hard to save someones life if they are an organ donor, organ donation is a noble cause because it not only saves and improves lives, but it can also ease the mourning process for the family members of the deceased.