Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
As you can guess from the title of this post, Spain leads the world in rates of organ donation. More recent figures back this up. Figures published for 2017 reveal that 2,183 people in Spain became organ donors last year after they died. That’s 46.9 per million people in the population (pmp) – a standard way…
Almost ten years ago, I wrote a post on Iran’s policy of paying organ donors. It looks like the New York Times has finally caught on. An excerpt is below: But [Iran’s organ donation program’s] chief advantage is this: People who need kidneys get them rapidly, rather than die on the waiting list. In the vast majority of cases,…
What do organ donation and soccer (or football or fútbol) have in common? Typically, not much. However, one Brazilian soccer team, Sport Club do Recife, though otherwise. The BBC reports: “Every Brazilian is born with football in the soul,” says Jorge Peixoto, of Sport Club Recife, one of the top teams in the north-east of the…
Don’t laugh. De Grote Donorshow was a real show that aired in the Netherlands that used an American Idol-style public voting system to determine who should be a worthy receipt of a kidney (see a YouTube video). Or was it? The program involved a supposedly terminally ill 37-year-old woman donating a kidney to one of…