1. Is the Unified List System for Organ Transplants Fair? Analysis of Opinions from Different Groups in Brazil
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Gustavo Noronha de Ávila, Gerson Antonio De Avila, and Gabriel José Chittó Gauer
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Health (social science) ,Waiting Lists ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,Population ,Subject (philosophy) ,Public opinion ,Resource Allocation ,Lawyers ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Impossibility ,education ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Technological change ,Patient Selection ,Health Policy ,Organ Transplantation ,Public relations ,Dilemma ,Philosophy ,Attitude ,Waiting list ,Public Opinion ,business ,Psychology ,Brazil ,Medical doctor - Abstract
In the 1960s, when Dr. Belding Scribner discovered how to accomplish the process of dialysis in a repeated way, he could not imagine that in solving such a problem others as or more difficult would appear. Given the technological progress and the impossibility of assisting all patients through the most modern methods, the medical doctor often finds himself faced with the moral dilemma of choosing which patient in the waiting list will receive the treatment. This same dilemma is amplified in the case of organ transplants. Professionals, students, professors of the juridical and health fields, and the population in general, were interviewed as a means of documenting the moral concepts and opinions surrounding this problem. In the reality in which we find ourselves, it seems to us that deciding who lives, and the responsibility for all the events that culminate in such decisions, is still a subject left open to discussion.
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- 2003
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