There are 75,660 active patients waiting for a transplant in the U.S., according to the the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Some will never make it to the top of the list.
That was the worry of the parents of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who is dying of end-stage cystic fibrosis and is waiting for a transplant at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Murnaghan made headlines this week when her parents filed a lawsuit to change the existing transplant policy that says kids under 12 must wait for pediatric lungs to become available. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson ruled that Murnaghan should be placed on the adult waiting list for a lung.
The story highlighted the frustration of families waiting for organ transplants and the ethical issues involved with giving priority to certain patients. Dr. Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University Langone Medical Center, told the Associated Press he worries the ruling sets a bad precedent for patients to run to the court if they don’t like their spot on the waiting list... [...]
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