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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on March 01, 2016, 12:43:27 PM
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http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-freakonomics-listener-was-inspired-to.html (http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-freakonomics-listener-was-inspired-to.html)
A Freakonomics listener was inspired to become a non-directed kidney donor by the podcast on kidney exchange (http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-freakonomics-listener-was-inspired-to.html)
In June, 2015, right around the time my book Who Gets What and Why (http://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-What-Why-Matchmaking/dp/0544291131/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) was published, Steven Dubner and his team at Freakonomics published a podcast called Make Me a Match (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-a-new-freakonomics-radio-episode/), in which he interviewed me and others about kidney exchange, among other things. Now, in a new podcast, Dubner interviews a listener named Ned Brooks who was inspired by that interview to become a non-directed kidney donor and start a kidney exchange chain. In fact, not only does Dubner interview the donor, he interviews the woman who received his kidney, and in fact introduces the two of them for the first time. Pretty dramatic stuff.
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(N.B.: Well worth reading and hearing!)
Full Podcast: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/ask-not-what-your-podcast-can-do-for-you/
The Donor’s new organization: http://www.donortodonor.com/#welcome (http://www.donortodonor.com/#welcome)