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3/15/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: Difficult Decisions in Health Care: Upstate Ethicist Dr. Gregory Eastwood and kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Amy Friedman discuss the complex ethical issues surrounding organ donation, including who gets one and why; jumping ahead in line; and buying and selling organs on the internet.

Health Information Center Resources for Ethics of Organ Donor Shortages:

• Ethical Incentives - Not Payment - For Organ Donation, from the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Redefining death: A new ethical dilemma, from American Medical News.
• End the Wait!, from the National Kidney Foundation.
• The Presumed Consent Foundation, Inc.
• Organ Transplantation, from Practical Ethics - Ethical Perspectives on the News. University of Oxford.
• Pro/con ethics debate: is nonheart-beating organ donation ethically acceptable?, from BioMed Central. Critical Care. 2002; 6(3): 192-195.
• Impact of presumed consent for organ donation on donation rates: a systematic review, by Amber Rithalia and others. BMJ. 2009; 338: a3162.

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