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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: kickingandscreaming on May 10, 2018, 02:50:32 AM

Title: TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs
Post by: kickingandscreaming on May 10, 2018, 02:50:32 AM

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-organ-transplants-disparity_us_5aec8975e4b0c4f193223b87

Title: Re: TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs
Post by: cassandra on May 10, 2018, 04:12:50 AM

Thank you KaS for that article. I am impressed that the author was allowed to use a quote of one professor in which he states that 
                        “A lot of physicians are not social scientists. It’s much easier for us to mutate a T cell to attack a cancer cell than it is for us to attack institutional racism and sexism.”

Really? Institutional Sexism and racism need to be solved by social scientists? Hopeless.........


Nb I hope Haber is on her way to recovery.

Title: Re: TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs
Post by: Charlie B53 on May 10, 2018, 04:43:50 AM

WOW!  Who would have thought.

I never had a thought about body size being a restricting factor but the article made it very clear that this Lady's small size was a sever limit on donor size.

Sadly near the very end of the article it states that the TX is not doing so well, that she may soon need another.

I could easily be wrong, but livers are not always used 'full size', I would think that perhaps the lower portion of a lung could be 'trimmed' so as to make a larger one 'fit' a smaller person.  Not being a Dr I don't have a clue.