Essays on Organ Donation

Introduction Lung transplantation is the most recognized treatment for advanced stage lung disease. Since 1990s more than 62000 lung transplants have been completed worldwide (ISHT data). Recent data on single-lung transplants show that 78% patients survive the first year and 51% of patients survive 5…

As America become more divided on many topics it’s hard not to involve yourself when most topic involve you in one way or another. Whether you’re speaking health wise where things just happen to one’s bodies and in most cases, people don’t have control over…

Introduction Donor Gametes is a process in which a man or woman donates their own egg or sperm to someone who cannot have a child themselves, they receive an egg or sperm to be able to have a child of their own. It is prominently…

Organ donation strikes at the core of everyone around the world, it is closely linked with the overwhelming, heartbreaking image of loss and despair. This unfortunate correlation between death and organ donation has tainted all the good that is accomplished by a selfless act that…

In Katharine Seelye’s article, “As Drug Deaths Soar, a Silver Lining for Transplant Patients,” she provides factual information from New England pertaining to drug users that donated their organs after death. Drug users make up more than a quarter of all donations in this area;…

Organ donation is a matter of life or death. It could also be explained like this: from death lives are saved. It is unfortunate to lose a loved one, but the pain is no longer theirs but left for those on Earth. The overwhelming pain…

When I was 12 years old, I found myself standing in the ICU of Stanford Medical Center. My father, the man who had always been the picture of health, was lying in a hospital bed, frail, bony, a shell of his former self. Within 5…