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http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-freakonomics-listener-was-inspired-to.htmlA Freakonomics listener was inspired to become a non-directed kidney donor by the podcast on kidney exchangeIn June, 2015, right around the time my book Who Gets What and Why was published, Steven Dubner and his team at Freakonomics published a podcast called Make Me a Match, 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.… (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

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Unrelated directed kidney donor in 2003, my recipient and I are well.
640 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
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