Organ Transplant Ethics

Organ Transplant Ethics                                                                                                                             1

Organ Transplant Ethics

Organ Transplant Ethics                                                                                                                             2

        An organ transplant procedure involves surgical operation to replace damaged of failing organs with those that are healthy. Organs refer to massses of specialized tissues or cells that perform the body functions. Therefore, any body part that is naturally independent and has a particular essential function like the kidneys, is an organ. The processes of organ transplant heavily relies on organ donation or organ sales processes that involve ethical guidelines and laws that protect both donor and recipients. This article will analyze various internet, television and newspaper sources and focus how organ transplant is viewed accompanied by personal opinion on the presented information.

        The internet source involved a document from Live Science website authored by Rick Nauert and BBC source that was about a discussion on organ donation and newborn babies. The internet source involved a documentary on organ transplant called Transplant; A Gift for Life that was funded by charity organizations like Carlson Family Foundation and filmed by Mahoney.

        A document from Livescience website titled “Ethics Failures Found on Greys Anatomy” and “House” authored by Rick Nauert. The article presented the influence of television medical dramas on medicine partice regarding ethics and professionalism. These fimes presnet scenarios and behaviors that cannot be tolerated in real medical world. Therefore Nauert presented a summary of a research done by a student and faculty directors from Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on the impact of television medical dramas and their impact on the medical field. According to Nauert, television medical drams make medical students to discuss and think about ethical issues surrounding practice of medicine.

        The second source from a BBC radio 4 involved a discussion on organ donation and newborn babies. It discussed who is more suitable to receive an organ, which is suitable to donate an organ and how these views have changed. The panel contained Bobbie Farsides a professor of Clinical Ethics at Brigthon, Susan Bewley a professor of Complex Obstetrics at Kings College and John Wyatt an emeritus professor of Neonatology at University College London. The panel discussed various challenging decisions that medical practitioners and patients have to make during treatment. Based on the discussion there was analysis of the decision made by a woman who was expectant with two twins and how she dealt with the pregnancy complications. The womans decision was based on advice for