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A post-transplant patient says "presumed consent" is the answer to shortage of organs for transplant
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PALM DESERT, CA — According to post-transplant patient David Courtney, America’s present system of organ donation that relies primarily on “altruism” is failing miserably in meeting the demand for organs because the waiting list keeps increasing rapidly, now nearing 113,000 according to the United Network for Organ Sharing the Federally contracted operator of the US Organ Procurement and TransplantationNetwork. According to the Los Angeles Times, on average, one person that has been listed for transplant dies every 52 minutes.
He is the President of the Presumed Consent Foundation, Inc, and a member of the FAIR Foundation’s Board of Directors whose 27 transplant surgeons, medical directors and patient advocates support of the implementation of Presumed Consent policy.
Courtney has intimate knowledge regarding the long wait for transplant. His life was close to ending after many years waiting for a double lung transplant.
“Although my life has been saved,” Courtney states, I continue to fight for change from our present policies because so many others are needlessly dying; indeed, thousands of those lives can be saved.”
Courtney recommends a new organ-donor policy called “Presumed Consent” which would mandate that all citizens are organ-donors; however each citizen retains the right of free choice – they can opt out of the system at any time.
