Last ditch effort to save German organ donor system.
As if two organ transplant scandals involving several clinics and highly regarded transplant surgeons in a single year were not enough, scandal number three hit the German mass media a few weeks ago and, like the others, made it onto the BBC News website.
The inner workings of all three scandals are as fundamentally boring as they are repetitive.
Some people on the transplant waiting lists were made to appear much sicker than they really were, so they moved up and got that organ.
For each one moving up, there is another one moving down, and the last man, woman, or child on that medical totem pole gets a shot at dying.
We have had that kind of thing in the US, so we won't wag fingers at the Germans.
But we at the K-Landnews have a solution never before suggested in all the reports on how to improve the system.
That solution is to equip the surgeons in charge with a new brain. From a donor. A donor they can select themselves, after all, they are in charge.
It's a win-win. So many brains are wasted in today's transplant operations. They are discarded, incinerated, or at best cut into thin slices and preserved as study material for med students.
Sure, there will be a trade-off re the surgical skills, but this is far less acute than you might think.
The surgeons can extend to surgery the approach they already follow in daily clinic work: make the underlings do the real work.
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