Denied Transplant

A Little Girl's Kidney, A Nation's Heart

Susan Senator | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Medical Ethics, Kidney Transplant, Denied Transplant, Amelia Rivera, Parents News
Susan Senator

Why do doctors get to decide whether a child's cognitive abilities make her a candidate for an organ transplant? That is what has me so upset over Amelia's doctors: the implication that some humans are better than others.

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Why A Hospital Should Deny A Transplant To A 'Mentally Retarded' Child

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Kidney Transplant, Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, Denied Transplant, Cognitive Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Amelia Rivera, Kurt Hirschhorn, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

Amelia Rivera is 3 years old. Born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, doctors have told her parents that she will die in 6 months to a year without a kidney transplant. They also said that they would not perform that transplant.

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