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| 3/31/2007 |
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| A CLOSER LOOK ORGANS FOR SALE |
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|FRANK DELMONICO, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANT SURGEONS |
|18:48:43 |
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|18:48:43 DAVID KERLEY |
|(OC) Tonight, we take 'a closer look" at a radical solution to a medical |
|crisis, the shortage of donor organs. By far, the greatest demand is for |
|kidneys. More than 70,000 people need one, but only 17,000 received a |
|donor kidney last year and more than 6,000 people died waiting for one. |
|One prominent surgeon is proposing a controversial remedy, allow |
|volunteers to sell one of their kidneys. Here's ABC's John McKenzie. |
|18:49:09 JOHN MCKENZIE, ABC NEWS |
|(VO) Since diabetes damaged his kidneys, Michael Kelly has had to rely |
|on this machine to filter his blood. Three days every week, for hours at |
|a time, it's been that way for more than a year. |
|18:49:22 MICHAEL KELLY, PATIENT |
|The whole process of it, it really wipes you out. |
|18:49:25 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) Dialysis can keep Kelly alive, but not for as long as a real |
|kidney. |
|18:49:30 MICHAEL KELLY |
|It's kind of out of my hands. And all I can do is sort of wait until, |
|you know, somebody wants to donate a kidney. I only need one. But |
|there's, how do you get that one? |
|18:49:42 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) Getting a kidney is now so difficult, the demand so great. The |
|current president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons says it's |
|time to start paying people for one of their kidneys. |
|18:49:53 DOCTOR ARTHUR MATAS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA |
|It sounds like the wrong thing to do, to be buying kidneys, until you |
|start realizing that unless we do something dramatic, we're going to have |
|a continuation of this situation where patients are dying on dialysis and |
|their quality of life is worse. |
|18:50:09 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) Dr. Matas argues you can already buy and sell human sperm, eggs and |
|blood, why draw the line at kidneys and other organs? And because a |
|transplant saves so much money in long-term medical costs, Matas says the |
|government and insurance companies could afford to pay each donor one |
|fixed price. |
|18:50:27 DOCTOR ARTHUR MATAS |
|When all is said and done, the package could be worth maybe up to about |
|$60,000 or $70,000 and, again, still be cost neutral to the healthcare |
|system. |
|18:50:37 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(OC) The obstacles to such a plan are huge. Organ sales are currently |
|against the law, and virtually, every major medical association is against |
|the idea, including Dr. Matas' own transplant society. |
|18:50:49 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) They argue the plan is unmanageable and would exploit the poor. |
|They point to Iran and Pakistan and the Philippines, where kidneys are |
|sold on the BLACK MARKET. |
|18:50:59 DOCTOR FRANK DELMONICO, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL |
|There are plenty of data about the poor of the world who have sold their |
|kidney. And I can assure you what has happened is that they remain |
|destitute, they remain poor and they remain then with one less kidney. |
|18:51:14 DOCTOR ARTHUR MATAS |
|I think it's critical to differentiate unregulated systems, which have |
|failed in other countries, from the regulated system, which I'm |
|advocating. |
|18:51:23 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) Matas' proposal, published in several medical journals, emphasizes |
|kidney sales that are controlled by the government and insurance |
|companies, no middlemen or brokers. Sellers would get a full physical and |
|psychological evaluation and long-term follow-up and medical care. |
|18:51:39 DOCTOR ARTHUR MATAS |
|The only way that we will know whether or not such a system will work is |
|to try a pilot project. |
|18:51:45 JOHN MCKENZIE |
|(VO) To see whether kidney sales can be a fair and effective solution to |
|an increasingly desperate medical crisis. John McKenzie, ABC News, New |
|York. |
|18:51:55 DAVID KERLEY |
|(OC) And the debate over the subject continues online. You can see what |
|both sides are saying and weigh in with your own thoughts at our website |
|at . |
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