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Risk Assessment

What happens when the gift of life comes with complications? Recent cases of HIV transmission via organ transplants have doctors rethinking what they should tell patients about their donors.

By Karen Springen | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Nov 16, 2007 | Updated: 12:59  p.m. ET Nov 16, 2007

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  • Posted By: anotherday0 @ 11/27/2007 8:23:55 PM

    Yes. I agree that screening techniques for "high risk" donors should take this into consideration along with concerns about STDs. Few of members at famous STD dating site pozgroup.com know that they can not be a organ donor.

  • Posted By: Herbie2 @ 11/17/2007 10:22:56 AM

    There are more than one kind of "high risk" donors. I was told by the Red Cross seven years ago that I had to stop making blood donations, and that I could not be considered as an organ donor because I have cancer. Screening techniques for "high risk" donors should take this into consideration along with concerns about STDs.

  • Posted By: rosebudsex77 @ 11/16/2007 8:32:55 PM

    The truth duh!!!!!!!!!!! Anything else is bullsh??.

  • Posted By: erchess @ 11/16/2007 8:09:28 PM

    The most important thing is to make sure that the relevant malpractice insurance does two things for each of these infected patients.1. It needs to pay for their medical care for the rest of their lives and 2. It needs to give them each a wad of cash greater than the wealth of Bill Gates.

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