Category: Organ donation
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Details of the first Global Kidney Exchange Live and (temporarily) ungated
The final version of the paper that I blogged about last week, Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-yr Follow-up, is now available online. The publisher has created a Share Link providing 50 days’ free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before October 27, 2018 will be taken directly to the final version…
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Details of the First GKE (Global Kidney Exchange) Chain
My co-authors and I recently published a paper that provides more detail on the first Global Kidney Exchange (GKE), including a 3-year follow-up report on the Filipino pair that participated. We wrote this, in part, to respond to GKE critics who argued that the Filipino pair had been exploited or coerced into participating, or who argued that…
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Kidney Doner Stories
Over at Market Design Blog, Al Roth posts part of an incredibly moving email conversation with a donor who became part of a kidney paired exchange after hearing what I think is one of the best Freakonomics episodes of all time. As the donor describes it: Then I heard a follow up episode that united a donor with…
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Super Bowl Week OpEd
As the Super Bowl approaches, Phil Cook and I have an OpEd running in the Raleigh News & Observer and a few other publications: Why ban payment to kidney donors but not football players? BY PHILIP J. COOK AND KIMBERLY D. KRAWIEC February 01, 2018 01:06 PM Super Bowl week rivets national attention on America’s most popular…