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Organ Donation

Posted by GruntDoc on 28th January 2003

Organ donation is one of those topics that actually encompasses several connected but different elements. I believe most people think of brain-dead to live transplant when it comes up, but there are also living donor transplants, where awake donors can give their organs (kidney and liver lobe are, I think, all that are routinely done currently).
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