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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Humor, Pictures, Stories and Poems => Topic started by: Rerun on April 27, 2006, 07:00:52 AM
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I can't believe I got this email from someone in China!
IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to
>> this email.
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>> The message they sent you was:
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>> Hello Rerun,
>>
>> Glad to know you through internet. Here I write you to introduce us as
>> the biggest and most famous and key transplant center in South China.
>> Now our business scope include Heat transplant,liver transplant,lung
>> transplant,kidney transplant, kidney pancreas and multi-organs
>> transplant. You are welcome to visit our center.
>>
>> Here I world like to give you some more info about service we can supply
>> .
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>> 1. Short waiting period.
>> Fast and expedient process to locate compatible donor organs in as short
>> as 15 working days usually or even shorter. Perhaps you know in China,
>> there is no national organ sharing system like UNOS in North America to
>> allocate organs throughout the country. The matching between transplant
>> recipients and donors are done locally in hospital. Every hospital has
>> its own source of organ donation. For transplant candidates, the pace of
>> receiving organ transplant is much dependent on their relationships with
>> transplant doctors and the premium prices they are willing to pay for
>> getting on the priority waiting list. Through our special arrangement
>> with our counterparts located throughout the country the kidney
>> transplant waiting time for westerners in China can be greatly reduced.
>>
>> 2. Travel and accommodation arrangements
>> Patient arrives at the airport and is brought to the hospital by our
>> special representatives
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>> 3. Pre-transplant preparation and logistics
>> All baseline investigations will be repeated such as donor-recipient
>> cross-match etc.. Immunosuppressive medication will be started for the
>> donor by the nephrologist. The Cardiac, Surgery and Anesthesia teams will
>> visit the patient for assessment. The patient will undergo hemodialysis.
>> At the same time donor candidates will be admitted to hospital and
>> undergo series of laboratory tests.
>>
>> 4. Transplantation operation production
>> After transplant recipient will be sent to ICU for 3 days about
>>
>> 5. Follow-up care and full treatment
>> Recipient shifts back to awards.Recipient undergoes laboratory tests and
>> evaluations for renal function and is seen through convalesce.Recipient
>> stitches removed, discharged from hospital and sent back home. Referred
>> back with all hospital and procedure notes to his/her original
>> nephrologist. Seeing-off at the airport.
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>> 6. Money-back Guarantee
>> ¡ñ prior to donor matching, the transplant surgery is unable to proceed
>> in China or
>> ¡ñ after the transplant surgery arranged by us the customer passes away
>> in China directly resulting from operation or its post-operative
>> complications or
>> ¡ñ the situation of the customer is worsening and no longer suitable for
>> a transplant surgery in China
>> Straight hospital expenses include any expenses incurred in hospitals or
>> prescribed by doctors such as the following but not limited to:
>> ¡ñ medical check-ups, examination tests
>> ¡ñ treatments such as haemodialysis, medications prescribed, surgery cost
>> ¡ñ accommodations in hospitals
>> ¡ñ nursing
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>> 7. Safety
>> Our transplant surgeon has done more than 2,500 kidney transplants and
>> 400 liver transplants etc and the nephrologist has supervised pre and
>> post operative treatment of over 2,000 transplants. The team anesthetists
>> are very familiar with patients and have the experience of transplant
>> surgeries. The team also consists of cardiologists and pulmonologists
>> should their assistance be required. The most important fact to be
>> considered is that the patients are in absolutely safe hands.
>>
>> I do think that our program consultants, physicians, surgeon specialist
>> and nurses combined with our modern facilities ensure that each patient
>> receives the best care in a supportive and clean environment.
>>
>> Now China has made great strides with transplant surgery in recent years,
>> with survival rates approaching those of the US. As you know China has
>> been the sencond biggest transplant country in the world. Which in some
>> extent give a good explanation of our technology. They are even
>> pioneering new drugs and new techniques that are being tried in the US.
>> Many of the doctors there were trained in the best transplant centers in
>> the US. Therefore you can rest assured that you are in the safety hand.
>>
>>
>> There are still many foreigners think that place like China is still
>> under-developed, and no way they can receive a good medical attention
>> there. This type of common expression mainly due to the wrong media image
>> that passed out by the public media. In fact, place like
>> Shanghai,Beijing,Guangdong is a highly developed modern city just like
>> New York, people here work in sky rocket office building just like most
>> Americans do. Hundreds of thousand foreigner expert work and live
>> regularly in city like Shanghai and they do get good medical attention
>> through the local hospital facilities. It doesn't mean that any hospital
>> in China can help your need, but we do. We have already done surgery for
>> foreigners from worldwide like Japan, Cambodia, Phillipine, and Americans
>> from TX and Maryland etc. and now they enjoy their new lifes freely. Upon
>> any query please write me or call me we can supply their contacts for
>> your check or consultancy for details.
>>
>> It was affordable for the charge compared to the over priced medical
>> expense in US. Please feel free to contact me for further detail upon any
>> question.I am very sorry if this email arrive at you wrong. Very
>> appreciated if you can do us the favor to refer it to approriate persons.
>> Just one email perhaps it can change another person life. Please help!
>>
>> Thomas Tau
>>
>> South China Transplant Center
>>
>> Tel: +86 21 6242 0590/ +86 139 1649 4519
>> Fax:+1 425 969 6155/+86 21 6242 0590
>> Email: doctorthomastau@gmail.com
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I got the same email as well. Sounds a little suspicious to me. I have been told never to go overseas and buy a kidney as you don't know where the kidney is coming from and how it was obtained. Some people don't come back (at least you have a money back guarantee) but thats no good to you when you're dead :'( I know I WON'T be going there for my transplant. Did anyone else get it? Liz
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I got the same email and laughed. Like I want to go to a third world country and have dialysis and transplant. No thanks. I will stay right here.
Katherine
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I have heard the organs come from prisoners! ???