bioethics-ORGAN TRANSPLANT
discussion board for bioethics
Organ Transplants
There are many patients on organ transplant waiting lists who are dying because of inadequate numbers of vital organs available for transplant.
There are suggestions for the United States to develop an “opt-out” donation program. This would mean all deaths could, if appropriate, be a potential organ donor unless the individual had specifically rejected to be a donor.
What is YOUR opinion?
1. In order to obtain enough organs to be transplanted into needy patients, should laws be passed which allow organs to be obtained from persons who have died without prior permission of the patient or family?
2. Do you believe an opt-out option is a good idea? What are potential the ethical concerns?
**** Use examples from the reading and required resources to support your answers to the above questions.
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Bioethics are concerned with the thoughtful suggestions and ethics of medical and biological treatments (Caplan, 2014). Hence, bioethics outlines the required procedures and ethics required especially in organ transplants while caring for the fatally ill. Laws should not be passed allowing organs obtainable from dead patients without the consent of the patient or the family. The idea is because the laws will be against the will and respect of the death and the bioethics. The legal system indicates that the patient’s body on dying belongs to the family. Organ donation in the ….
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