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The Trouble with Organ Banking
« on: May 31, 2014, 05:20:33 AM »
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Re: The Trouble with Organ Banking
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2014, 05:32:41 AM »
And what's her interest? She's hot a book to sell: Banking on the Body. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281431
Unrelated directed kidney donor in 2003, recipient and I both well.
620 time blood and platelet donor since 1976 and still giving!
Elected to the OPTN/UNOS Boards of Directors & Executive, Kidney Transplantation, and Ad Hoc Public Solicitation of Organ Donors Committees, 2005-2011
Proud grandpa!

 

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