- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Why Not Me? -
2 The Arcane Process of Screening Living Donors -
3 Meeting “My” Recipient -
4 Do I Own My Organs? -
5 Evaluation at Mayo -
6 Are “Stranger Donors” Irrational? -
7 What Are the Risks? -
8 Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers or Appropriate Patient Protection? -
9 The Endgame -
10 Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets -
11 The Odyssey Continues -
12 Complexities of Increasing Organ Supply -
13 Going Public, Moving Forward -
14 The Countdown Begins -
15 Ethics, Organ Markets, and Dry Ice -
16 Staying Healthy -
17 First Attempt -
18 Second Attempt -
19 Follow-Up -
20 Lessons Learned - Epilogue
- Resources
- Works Cited
- Index
The Endgame
The Endgame
(Martha)
- Chapter:
- (p.79) 9 The Endgame
- Source:
- Kidney to Share
- Author(s):
Martha Gershun
John D. Lantos
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter begins with detailing the author's final results following her three-day grueling tests for glucose tolerance, psychological screening, kidney function, EKG, and a chest X-ray. The author found out that there was an issue with her blood pressure. It then outlines the four available choices she could take: to end the process, to lose some weight and reduce salt intake and retest in a few months, to start on a very low dose of antihypertensive medication and retest in two weeks, and finally, to take her current results to the Transplant Selection Committee and hope for the best. Ultimately, the chapter presents an alternative plan, to become part of the Kidney Paired Donation program, if the new blood tests ruled the author unable to donate directly to the intended recipient.
Keywords: glucose tolerance test, kidney function test, blood pressure, EKG, Transplant Selection Committee, Kidney Paired Donation program
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Why Not Me? -
2 The Arcane Process of Screening Living Donors -
3 Meeting “My” Recipient -
4 Do I Own My Organs? -
5 Evaluation at Mayo -
6 Are “Stranger Donors” Irrational? -
7 What Are the Risks? -
8 Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers or Appropriate Patient Protection? -
9 The Endgame -
10 Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets -
11 The Odyssey Continues -
12 Complexities of Increasing Organ Supply -
13 Going Public, Moving Forward -
14 The Countdown Begins -
15 Ethics, Organ Markets, and Dry Ice -
16 Staying Healthy -
17 First Attempt -
18 Second Attempt -
19 Follow-Up -
20 Lessons Learned - Epilogue
- Resources
- Works Cited
- Index
