Organ Transplant Recipients Share Their Stories

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Every day in hospitals around the country, while one family is grieving the loss of a family member, another family is given news that will offer them hope: that a possible organ donor match has been made. In California alone, more than 20,000 people remain on the waitlist for a kidney, liver, or other organ. We’ll talk about how organ donation works and hear about a new law that aims to modernize the current system. And we’ll hear from you: have you or a family member received – or donated – an organ? Guests: Lenny Bernstein, health and medicine reporter, The Washington Post Michael Pasco, liver transplant recipient Kris Netherton, heart and kidney transplant recipient Dr. Harish Mahanty M.D., surgical director of kidney transplantation, Sutter Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.7	Every day in hospitals around the country, while one family is grieving a loss, another
1:25.2	family is given news that offers hope. A possible organ donor
1:29.2	match has been made. In California, more than 20,000 people are on the wait list for a kidney,
1:35.1	liver, or other major organ. And this hour, we'll talk about how organ donation works,
1:40.6	learn about a new law that aims to modernize the current system and hear from organ transplant recipients.
1:46.0	Have you or a family member received or donated an organ? Have you registered to be an organ donor?
1:52.0	Why or why not? You can tell us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Nationwide, there are about 100,000 people on the organ
2:10.1	transplant waiting list, and 20,000 of them are from California. Yet millions of Californians are
2:16.9	willing to donate their organs. There are lots of
2:20.0	reasons a relatively small number of organs are donated, from an organ's viability and a doctor's
2:25.0	medical knowledge to problems with management of the organ transplant network, which has been
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