Most of us don’t give organ and tissue donation much thought. But there is a group of people in this country — 117,929 people as of 11:09 p.m., April 27, 2013, to be exact — who can’t get donation off their minds. They are waiting. Some who are waiting now won’t make it. So far this […]
Tag: kidney transplant
Step Away from the Kidney
Both Mike and I worked at a hospital way back in the 70s. Then, transplants were rare and miraculous occurrences, only done at a few big medical centers. If a patient was diagnosed as needing a transplant, it was mentioned in grave, hushed tones. To us then, a transplant was somewhere out there in the […]
One Wall at a Time 