Benedict Rogers had an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today scared me. It was about the statistics on Chinese organ harvesting at various hospitals verses the actual figures posted by the central government. Can you really get two livers (one for a backup) in 24 hours? The people waiting on lists in the U.S. must wonder what we are doing wrong to have to wait months for a liver transplant, when the Chinese can do it so fast.
And here we get to an interesting cultural difference between countries. Can doctors do organ removal on a perfectly healthy individual? Yes, in both countries that has to happen for kidneys and things we can live without. But, do we believe a doctor can do a removal of organs from a person who does not consent to the removal? That is a much different question and one, that in the deep recesses of our mind, we don't really want to answer.
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