Kidney Donation: You Could Be A Saint!

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kidneys are one of the few organs that you can donate while you’re alive. And the vast majority of donors experience no complications and their remaining kidney functions just fine. Yet thousands of people die each year waiting for a donated kidney. Why?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Tukidney Bryant and there's Jerry over there.
0:48.8	And this is Stuff You Should Know, The Kidney Donation Edition.
0:57.3	Yeah, we did one on Oregon Donation, right?
1:00.4	Yeah, and we did one on Trends, Stones.
1:02.4	And Kidney Stones.
1:03.4	So you put them together?
1:04.4	You get this episode.
1:05.4	That's right.
1:06.4	And this is from Dave Ruse or Powell.
1:09.6	And this good should we, this good.
1:12.8	It's that kind of day.
1:15.4	How it's going?
1:16.4	Yeah, we're in person again, by the way.
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