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Old 19-01-2008, 01:50 AM #8
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Originally posted by bananarama
Hospitals have to purchase drugs and technology so why should they not have to purchase donated organs......
For exactly that reason, they are being donated and not sold. It boils down to potentially saving somebody's life, not making some money to go towards a funeral.

And you said "Hospitals have to purchase drugs etc, but organ donors don't do it to help out the hospital, they do it to help out other people.


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My worry is hospitals desperate for a doner may not show the same degree of care when deciding if a potential doners life can be saved or not.
But they wouldn't gain from that. Either way, somebody is going to die and I'm sure it wouldn't cross their mind to not treat them as well as they could ... it's immoral for a start and if somebody (donor or not) is dying then doctors have a duty to do all they can.
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