I Need an Organ Donor. Paul Harasim.
by Harasim, Paul; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 16Health. Publisher: Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Awareness | Donation of organs, tissues, etc | Organ donors | Transplantation of organsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Less than a week after his 'I Need a Liver--Please Help Me' national media campaign began, [Todd] Krampitz, a cancer patient, underwent successful liver transplant surgery on Aug. 12 [2004] at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Doctors there used a liver from an out-of-state donor whose family specifically asked that the organ go to him." (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL) This article discusses the controversy stirred up by Krampitz's direct donation campaign as critics claim "his campaign allowed him to jump over others on the [organ donation] priority list."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: I Need an Organ Donor, Aug. 25, 2004; pp. 1A.
"Less than a week after his 'I Need a Liver--Please Help Me' national media campaign began, [Todd] Krampitz, a cancer patient, underwent successful liver transplant surgery on Aug. 12 [2004] at Houston's Methodist Hospital. Doctors there used a liver from an out-of-state donor whose family specifically asked that the organ go to him." (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL) This article discusses the controversy stirred up by Krampitz's direct donation campaign as critics claim "his campaign allowed him to jump over others on the [organ donation] priority list."
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