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  • How The Wealthy Skirt The Organ Waitlist

    You start feeling severe abdominal pain and swelling. Soon you experience fatigue, nausea, and disorientation. You go to the doctor to ask if anything is wrong. The doctor runs tests and gives you a harrowing diagnosis: your liver is failing and you need a new one as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she tells you that…

  • The Case for Presumed Consent

    If you can remember back to when you first got your drivers’ license, you may recall being asked if you wanted to be an organ donor. You may not have thought much of it—I know that I, at 16, certainly didn’t—but with an average of 18 people dying every day waiting for an organ transplant…