Transplanting Ethics

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This paper presents a case study of a young girl who died as a result of receiving mismatched organs. The paper describes the supposed safeguards of the system, which are imposed to ensure the proper blood typing of both donor and organ recipient to determine they are compatible. The paper presents the ethical considerations of the hospital ethics committee, which emerged as a result of this failed transplant.

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"A good example of this fact occurs in the examination of an unfortunate case involving the botched heart/lung transplant of a 16 year old girl, much like the recent incident at Duke Hospital. In this case, a young girl died as a result of receiving miss-matched organs. Unfortunately, in this case, all of the supposed safeguards of the system, imposed to assure that proper blood typing of both donor and organ recipient are compatible failed. As a result, the young girl was not only transplanted with incompatible organs, but, due the significant downturn in her health following the procedure, doctors failed to obtain another set of matched organs with the speed necessary to possibly save her life."

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