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Ethical dilemma of physicians risking lives of healthy patients to save other patients?
Barlow08
I'm not sure what you mean by "risking the lives of healty patients", since no healthy patient will need an organ transplant, and the 'donor' is definatly not 'healthy' - unless you're referring only to living donor organ transplants? In which case if the donor is 'willing' and 'healthy' the surgery should pose very few risks, but I guess there are ethical issues in this case. It's a balance of "whether the negatives associated with the patient who needs to organ dying" outweigh the "negatives associated with putting the donor through surgery." It's whichever outcome is less traumatic for all those involved.
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