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COMMENTS: Pass the Kidney
The New England Journal of Medicine inspired CBS' Michelle Miller to cover a live donor organ swap program. The donor volunteers to live with just one kidney, freeing the second one for transplant. "Other donor chains require the donor swaps to happen at the same time in the same hospital," she noted. The program organized by Dr Michael Rees of the University of Toledo does not. A transplant recipient merely has to promise to pass forward the next donation to a matching stranger at some time in the future. "Is there a risk to doing it this way?" "Absolutely. The big risk is that somebody might renege." "Has someone broken the chain?" "Nope. Nobody has done that yet."
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