الأحد، 14 فبراير 2010

Ten at one blow

One further thought on National Donor Day. The famous fairy tale "Seven at one blow" reminds us of the power of a succinct summary.

So I was moved by this Australian white paper on organ transplantation, which highlights the phrase

"One donor can save the lives of up to ten people."

Since the paper talks about both deceased donation (of multiple organs) and live kidney donation and kidney exchange, that could refer to several things. I suspect they are thinking of deceased donors of multiple organs. But (and this is what first caught my eye), they could also be referring to the first non-simultaneous extended altruistic donor chain, organized by Mike Rees (see this post too), which accomplished ten transplants (here are the pictures of the donors and recipients from People magazine). Since then, long, non-simultaneous chains have started to become a common form of kidney exchange. http://bit.ly/9J9eD4

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