Sergio Canavero Failure

In the beginning, Antonio is only six years old. He is at the center of a conflict between the Márez values of his father and the Luna beliefs of his mother. His father would love for him to become a cowboy, but his mother desperately wants him to become a priest. “ Once I had told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions from God and she was happy, because her own dream was that I should grow up an become a priest.” (4) All throughout the book he works as a helper to Ultima. “ We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines.” (15) He takes in her wisdom concerning life and all of the things she does. As the story goes on, Antonio is torn between sin and morality and the truth about religion. “... I learned from her that there was a beauty in the time of day and in the time of night, and that there was peace in the river and in the hills.” (15) Eventually, he decides to find his own path in life and create his own religious faith.

The medical practice of organ transplantation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. Each year the medical profession takes more risk with decisions regarding transplants, how to allocate for organs, and most recently conducting transplants on children with adult organs. “An organ transplantation is a surgical operation where a failing or damaged organ in the human body is removed and replaced with a new one” (Caplan, 2009). Not all organs can be transplanted. The term “organ transplant” typically refers to transplants of solid organs: heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines. There are two ways of receiving an organ transplant: from a living human or an organ from a

Supporting detail 1: With the advent of organ transplantation more than thirty years ago, the human body has quickly created a demand for replacement parts.

There were many European Explorers after Columbus “discovered” it. One important explorer to know and learn about is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. He attempted to explore major things and he became well known after his expedition to the New World.

Thesis: I believe that…whole brain death is the best definition of death suitable for the use of organ transplantation.

Treatment continues to advance with more medications developed. The first effective structure transplant is performed. The worth of hospital care doubles.

     Recently, the low numbers of human donor organs and short term mechanical “organ” replacements have given cause for

Sergio Gonzalez moved from Mexico to Nova Scotia five years ago and got a job at a McDonald’s restaurant. Since then, he’s worked his way up to manager and handles all aspects of the business, from making burgers to managing inventory to scheduling employees.

Mary Roach starts her research of human cadavers by going to a facial anatomy and face-lift refresher course. There, Roach learns that surgeons survive by modifying human remains. The author sees the distinct benefit of learning surgical methods using cadavers. Cadavers feel no agony and cannot die due to problems, cadavers offer immediate benefits for surgical study. Roach sees this as a great upgrade over how the surgery was once taught to live patients without the advantage of anesthesia.

I watched Anthony Atala’s speech “Growing new organs” in TED Talks, and was convinced by Anthony that even engineered organ was very a controversial topic, it still brought benefits to patients who need tissue replacement. Anthony’s strongest delivery attribute was his language choices. He opened his speech by showing a story and research statistics of organ transplantation. For example, he pointed out: “every 30 seconds, a patient dies form diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.” Anthony used the story and number wisely because he caught my attention and brought my interest to his speech. Also, Anthony used examples and stories of his own experience as a surgeon and a researcher. He not only established his credibility, but

The medical industry had been achieving more in the stage of medical advancements, though they are still in the early phase. Artificial organs have been one of those achievements. Although they have achieved such, artificial organs are not perfect. Most doctors as well as patients would prefer to replace a dying organ with a compatible human organ, rather than with an artificial or animal organ. Yet due to a there being less organs donated than recipients, artificial and animal organs are becoming more common in transplants. Most of this issue is because people are unaware of how organ donation works, the organs that can be donated, how many people are in need, and the advancements that have happened in the field. Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year, but many lives are recklessly lost due to a shortage of organ donors.

In late 18th century France it was common to lose one’s head due to political strife, but could the number of beheadings increase in the early 21st century by elective choice? One of the most controversial and discussed surgeries for the past century has been the concept of allo-head and body reconstruction, i.e. head transplantation. A major advocate for this surgery, Sergio Canavero, has increased its publicity and made major movements to get this procedure to happen in human subjects in the next decade. A recent article published in The Guardian has illustrated this surgeon’s enthusiasm to perform this procedure at all costs and was even quoted to state that there is nothing left to learn from animal studies (1). Although there is much that can be learned from applying this surgery to humans, we have not exhausted the information that animal studies can give us over this topic.

D. Thesis - Organ donation and Transplants are the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. They give hope to

Dr. Sergio Canavero is neurosurgeon that thinks outside the box. Many call him crazy for trying to perform a head transplant, but we have to take risks in order to grow in the medical field. Man used to think hear transplants and liver transplant weren’t possible, but we took risk just like Dr. Sergio Canavero is today. Dr. Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, Spoke on his plans to perform the first ever human head transplant. Dr. Canaveros has chosen Valery Spiridonov, a 30 year old computer scientist from Vladimir, Russia. Spiridonav has Werdning Hoffmen disease a rare genetic conditions that affects your muscle movement. Spirdonov says “I can hardly control my body now. I need help every day, every minute” (Spiridonov). When asked about if he was scared Spiridonov replied “I’m not worried about anything. Someone needs to be first. Someone needs to go further where no one has gone before” (Spiridonov)

Physicians today are faced with a growing list of patients awaiting transplants for organs that have failed, but there are not enough donors to meet these needs. Countries all over the world have a “human organ shortage” and the waiting lists for organ transplants only seem to grow longer (Melo 427). In the United States 62,000 patients needed a kidney, liver, or pancreatic transplant in the year 2001. Xenotransplantation, which refers to the transplantation of organs, cells, or tissues from animal species into human beings, has been heralded as a promising technology that will help us save more lives and lessen the dire shortage of transplantable organs.