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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/opinion/organ-donation-reform-delays.html


New York Times 1/28/2022


Opinion


Guest Essay


Tonya Ingram Feared the Organ Donation System Would Kill Her. It Did.


"It’s 2019, and the 27-year-old poet and mental health activist Tonya Ingram is looking for a kidney on Instagram. Her best option is to compel someone to agree to a living donation."
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Unrelated directed kidney donor in 2003, recipient and I both are well.
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