Organ Donation And The Ethical Implications

In 1983 Dr H Barry Jacobs, a physician from Virginia, whose medical license had been revoked after a conviction for Medicare mail-fraud, founded International Kidney Exchange, Ltd. He sent a brochure to 7,500 American hospitals offering to broker contracts between patients with end-stage-renal-disease and persons willing to sell one kidney. His enterprise never got off the ground, but Dr Jacobs did spark an ethical debate that resulted in hearings before a congressional committee headed by Albert Gore, Jr., then a representative from the state of Tennessee. The offensive proposal for kidney sales led to the National Organ Transplant Act to become law in

In this paper I will be using the normative theory of utilitarianism as the best defensible approach to increase organ donations. Utilitarianism is a theory that seeks to increase the greatest good for the greatest amount of people (Pense2007, 61). The utilitarian theory is the best approach because it maximizes adult organ donations (which are the greater good) so that the number of lives saved would increase along with the quality of life, and also saves money and time.

The introduction of organ donation to society has since been a groundbreaking medical discovery and life-saving procedure, portrayed in myths dating back to Ancient times, before the 16th century. Early performed procedures we’re primarily successful skin grafts and transplants among individuals in need. It wasn’t until the early 1900’s that doctors had been documented performing experimental and risky transplants from animal organs to save human patients suffering from renal failure. Though successful, none of these patients lived more than a few days after the transplants. It wasn’t until December 23, 1954, that the first truly successful kidney transplant, from a living donor, was achieved. Dr. Joseph

There are a lot of different things that are going on in this world today that keep people from doing right by God. People need to know that the selling of the organs can make things worst in the country that can cause lots of problem for people who do not have the money to pay the price for organs. It comes a time that if someone needs an organ real bad to help save their life and do not have the money to pay for the organ, what will happen then. There would be people who would like for people to be able to just donate organs so they can help save lives in our country without looking for something in return. People can make a lot of different in our children life if they see that we as adults are doing something positive in the world makes them want to follow in our footsteps and love and care for everyone knows matter what the situation is looking like. People feel that if the selling of the organs would become legal to do, the only people who would be able to afford to buy organs would be the ones who has lots of money and want miss a dime when buying organs. “Being able to pay for an organ, would give an unfair disadvantage to those who may need the transplant more urgently but don’t have the money to offer. Being that there is limited number of organs from dying patients, and limited organs that can be donated from living patients.” (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid)

I was part of an operating team that was awaiting a harvest team to do an organ donation on a patient in our hospital that died. The patient was thirty-two and had died from a Cocaine overdose. As we prepared the patient it became apparent to me that the family had not had been given full disclosure of the facts. They believed that their loved one was only helping some one but was not aware that most of the remains were being donated to science. The doctor at the time of death approached the family and asked for organ donation. The patient had not given consent to their knowledge. This was apparent to me after speaking with the harvest team, I still fill I violated the code of ethics at that time, because I did not speak up and question did the family have an opportunity to think about it? Did they have all their questions answered? Did they understand the prognosis, fully? The patient was brought to the operating room from the ICU unit. I am concerned about organ donation still because of that day. I still wonder did the family have the time to hear and process what the doctor was saying?

Thesis: ​Organ donation is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ and transplanting

Organ donation is a rigorous process to determine the type of donation that is needed. With technology advancing so much more can be done. How it works depends on the type of organ/tissue that is needed; whether it comes from a living donor or from the deceased. Finding a match for the recipient, being on a waiting list, receiving the organ/transplant, recovery process and follow-ups, understanding the risk and benefit of the donation process, medical, background screening and the financial and emotional aspect of this process.

Every day, 20 people die because they are unable to receive a vital organ transplant that they need to survive. Some of these people are on organ donation lists and some of them are not. The poor and minorities are disproportionately represented among those who do not receive the organs they need. In the United States alone, nearly 116,000 people are on waiting lists for vital organ transplants. Another name is added to this list every 10 minutes. This paper will argue that organ donation should not be optional. Every person who dies, or enters an irreversible vegetative state with little or no brain function, should have his or her organs-more specifically, those among the organs that are suitable for donation-harvested. A single healthy donor who has died can save up to eight lives (American Transplant Foundation).

All aspects of health care face the inevitability of moral and ethical issues arising on numerous fronts. The organ donation and transplantation field of medicine is no exception. Each day, approximately 18 people die waiting for an organ to become available for transplant (Taranto, 2010). In the grand scheme of things this may not seem a significant number; however, the fact that over 6,500 individuals with families, friends, and an otherwise productive life will die needlessly every year is obviously a far cry from acceptable. This particular lack

Organ transplantation becomes a prevalent procedures that patients adopt it to cure for end-stage organ failure. Organ transplant is dissected in to organ donation, organ procurement and organ allocation. Since the demand exceeds supply that patients fight for scarce resources. Organ transplantation is not like other medical procedures. It involves organ procurements from donors, either living or deceased. Therefore, ethical issues is big concern. One’s perception, attitude, value, belief, age and health status influence on his or her willingness to donate organ. Meanwhile, one’s perception, attitude, value and belief rely on which social group that he or she comes from and the religion that he or she holds. Ethical dilemmas such as death determination and fairness allocation emerge in organ procurement and allocation.

In the case of organ donation, there are many individuals who sign up to become an organ donor if they were to die suddenly, being an aid for anyone who might need an organ under dire circumstances. The usual identification for an organ donor is on their driver’s license, in where the individual usually gives consent to become a donor during the licensing process. Even though it is the own individual’s choice to organ donation, what would occur if the family was in opposition of the donation due to religious purposes? In these type of ethical dilemmas, congregating with religious beliefs, can prove to be difficult when consulting on a dying individual’s health. To figure out such an ethical dilemma, one must be able to look through an ethical

It is undisputable that insufficient available organs to meet the demand of those on the organ donor waiting list have been on the increase. If the government of the United Kingdom does not imaginably attempt to address the problem, many more patients will die waiting for the available organs. Many approaches can be used to access and maximize organ donation to the government of the United Kingdom and the world as a whole. Organ transplant is a self-motivated issue that should be considered under every trend of growth and development in the medical sector. In order to access more organ donations to alleviate the looming problems, many humanitarian activities and approaches should be put under immense consideration.

Organ Transplantation is the surgical approach to replacing failing, diseased or infected organs from one person, with healthier biological tissues or organs from a donor whose structures function well.

Organ donation saves lives, and is a necessary part of the healthcare field. However, organ donation is failing to save as many lives as it could because of the low participation rates among the general population. There are numerous types of organ donation, and various organs that can be donated. Several issues need to be resolved and some systems need to be reformed to help increase the level of organ donation to meet demand. Several improvements such as creating an opt-out registration system, removing financial hardship obstacles for donors, and educating the public about organ donation could help remove some impediments from becoming a donor, and more lives will be saved.

Organ donation is an increasing practice in the medical field, which saves countless lives every year. Patients who are eligible for organ transplantation have an organ in their body that has either failed or works improperly and requires a new organ to be enable their body to work properly again. This problem can happen to people of any age from young children all the way to the elderly. Organ donors, either after death or alive, supply these people with a better functioning organ through donation. On the downside, there are not enough people willing to donate as there are patients in need.