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Notes from an Organ Recipient: Once is Enough

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Annie Klebahn Condon
Annie Klebahn Condon*
Affiliation:
Department of Transplant and Advanced Organ Therapies, Sutter Health, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: condona@sutterhealth.org
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Abstract

In this paper, the author describes her personal experiences with liver disease and the challenges both before and after receiving an organ transplant. She describes how organs are currently allocated and offers her perspective on what fairness entails in situations where organs fail and patients need multiple organs.

Keywords

organ transplantationliver transplantsMELD scoreorgan allocation fairness
Type
Research Article
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 2022 , pp. 400 - 402
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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