TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs

kickingandscreaming

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TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs

« on: May 10, 2018, 02:50:32 AM »

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


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Re: TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs

« Reply #1 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.


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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left

1983 high proteinloss in urine, chemo, stroke,coma, dialysis
1984 double nephrectomy
1985 transplant from dad
1998 lost dads kidney, start PD
2003 peritineum burst, back to hemo
2012 start Nxstage home hemo
2020 start Gambro AK96

still on waitinglist, still ok I think

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Re: TX Gender Bias : Womem have longer waits-get fewer organs

« Reply #2 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.


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