This was on the front page of this morning's paper; looks like dental work & some surgeries are ok, but don't go third world for your transplant!!!
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You don't necessarily need to go third world for your transplant anyhow. You can get a very healthy organ as long as the ethics of the situation don't get in the way, thanks to the Chinese legal system.
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I'm not sure where they were talking about in my article, but it said the out of country transplants had a much higher rejection rate and at least one person got an organ infected with hep c.Comment
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I'm sure that if the care I want
for myself or a loved one is obtainable in the US at a cost that won't wipe me out financially, that is where I will obtain the care. But if I could not get the care here at all or not and survive financially, but I could obtain it overseas for most treatments I would go with no moral hesitation. If the price of living comfortably for me or a loved one was to accept the transplant of an organ taken without consent, even from someone who was left alive or was killed only so the organ could be taken, well I am not sure what I would do. The core principles by which I try to live tell me I should die or give up my loved one rather than take the organ but I don't think people who have never actually faced that horrible choice can know what they would do.Comment
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