Is the Unified List System for Organ Transplants Fair? Analysis of Opinions from Different Groups in Brazil

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 thro...

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Published in:Bioethics 2003-10, Vol.17 (5-6), p.425-431
Main Authors: Ávila, Gustavo Noronha De, Ávila, Gerson Antônio De, Gauer, Gabriel José Chittó
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude
Attitude of Health Personnel
Attitudes
Bioethics
Biological organs
Brazil
Doctor-patient relationship
Doctors
Economic resources
Ethics
Health care
Humans
Lawyers
Moral dilemmas
Organ Transplantation - ethics
Patient Selection - ethics
Patients
Public Opinion
Resource allocation
Resource Allocation - ethics
Surveys and Questionnaires
Transplants
Value
Waiting Lists
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0269-9702
1467-8519
DOI:10.1111/1467-8519.00358