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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes[/quote]

Whatever asshole.  [/quote]

Why is someone an "asshole" for thinking the mother's account is not entirely accurate.  Did you not read how she described her own mental state during this meeting?

[quote]He says about three more sentences when something sparks in my brain. First it is hazy, foggy, like I am swimming under water. I actually shake my head a little to clear it. And then my brain focuses on what he just said.

I put my hand up. “Stop talking for a minute. Did you just say that Amelia shouldn’t have the transplant done because she is mentally retarded. I am confused. Did you really just say that?”

The tears. Oh, the damn tears. Where did they come from? Niagara Falls. All at once. There was no warning. I couldn’t stop them. There were no tissues in conference room so I use my sleeve and my hands and I keep wiping telling myself to stop it.[/quote]

If we want to have a debate on organ transplant criteria, I think that's healthy.  If this is just an exercise in picking sides based on who we like, I think it is a worthless activity.

If there is anyone to be mad at, it is the public at large.  The reason that transplant committees have to make these choices is because you and I haven't checked our organ donor options on our driver's licenses.  This is a great day to take a look at yours and if you haven't gotten around to it, take your passion and get this corrected.  Or sign up for a registry like this one:  http://marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQs.aspx  There is a 0.2% chance that you will save a person's life.  That's pretty cool.

FWIW I feel that a Down Syndrome patient, who has a shorter but reasonable life expectancy, should be a candidate.  But I think it is very difficult to pass over another patient to give an organ to a girl who has very low odds of seeing her 21st birthday.  Because for every child like this and every upset mother, there is another child and mother in another hospital filling out the same paperwork.  They share the same fears, the same pain, the same hopes and dreams for their future.  And only one of them is going to get that matched kidney.

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