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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: News Articles => Topic started by: Zach on January 12, 2009, 09:22:23 AM
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Not Just Urban Legend
Organ trafficking was long considered a myth. But now mounting evidence suggests it is a real and growing problem, even in America.
By the time her work brought her back to the United States, Nancy Scheper-Hughes had spent more than a decade tracking the illegal sale of human organs across the globe. Posing as a medical doctor in some places and a would-be kidney buyer in others, she had linked gangsters, clergymen and surgeons in a trail that led from South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations all the way back to some of her own country's best medical facilities. So it was that on an icy February afternoon in 2003, the anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, found herself sitting across from a group of transplant surgeons in a small conference room at a big Philadelphia hospital.
By accident or by design, she believed, surgeons in their unit had been transplanting black-market kidneys from residents of the world's most impoverished slums into the failing bodies of wealthy dialysis patients from Israel, Europe and the United States. ...
Read more at:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/178873
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Many people will do many things for money.
And if you have money you can get what you want.
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People read what you post Zach, not mine. :P
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Not true Okarol.. :waving;
I replied to some of yours.
Alot of the stuff is just way over my head as of yet.......
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I'll have to do better at reviewing past posts by okarol before I post.
I don't want to be redundant, redundantly.
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