Comments on: Should organ donors get paid? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/should-organ-donors-get-paid.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/should-organ-donors-get-paid.html/comment-page-1#comment-71287 Anonymous Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/should-organ-donors-get-paid.html#comment-71287 Why shouldn't donors get paid? Everyone else (from the recepient to the hospital, the surgeons, everyone) benefits from the deal, why shouldn't the donor (alive or dead)?<br /><br />People either own their own bodies, or they don't. Clearly, society is conflicted - in this case, they don't. Why shouldn’t donors get paid? Everyone else (from the recepient to the hospital, the surgeons, everyone) benefits from the deal, why shouldn’t the donor (alive or dead)?

People either own their own bodies, or they don’t. Clearly, society is conflicted – in this case, they don’t.

]]> By: Val Jones, MD http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/should-organ-donors-get-paid.html/comment-page-1#comment-71282 Val Jones, MD Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/should-organ-donors-get-paid.html#comment-71282 I once heard that there were fewer organ shortages in Europe because the default assumption is that people want to donate their organs - so if there's no evidence to the contrary, an accident victim becomes an automatic organ donor. Of course, here in the states, the default is non-donor, and not even a driver license indicating a wish to be a donor is enough to overturn that. Anyone else have thoughts about this? I once heard that there were fewer organ shortages in Europe because the default assumption is that people want to donate their organs – so if there’s no evidence to the contrary, an accident victim becomes an automatic organ donor. Of course, here in the states, the default is non-donor, and not even a driver license indicating a wish to be a donor is enough to overturn that. Anyone else have thoughts about this?

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