A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
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A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
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Re: A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
#2Reading stories like this one, of generosity and honesty, makes it more bearable to live in a country that nominated Donald Trump for president.
Re: A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
#3Reading stories like this one, of generosity and honesty, makes it more bearable to live in a country that nominated Donald Trump for president.
Keep politics out of discussions where not relevant.
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#4Every med student I know went through a hypochondriasis phase. I wonder what Poulson will think in a few years, once he is out of school.
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#5TL,DR: author voluntarily donated a kidney to his stepfather's brother, against the advice of much of his family. Years later, the recipient is doing fine but the author (on his way to becoming a doctor), has reviewed the risks of being a donor and now is nervous about the whole thing.
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#6Reading stories like this one, of generosity and honesty, makes it more bearable to live in a country that nominated Donald Trump for president.
Sure, blame an entire country.
Edit: For all I know, the down-voters are credulous mopes who agree with you about blaming a country?
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#7I suspect that this regret probably has quite a lot to do with the recipient being the stepfather's brother. I.e. not a blood relative; kind of distant.
Re: A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
#8TL,DR: author voluntarily donated a kidney to his stepfather's brother, against the advice of much of his family. Years later, the recipient is doing fine but the author (on his way to becoming a doctor), has reviewed the risks of being a donor and now is nervous about the whole thing.
Also, our worthless medical system doesn't do even the most basic data analysis to answer basic questions for common procedures and runs on half-truths and inertia.
Re: A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
#9TL,DR: author voluntarily donated a kidney to his stepfather's brother, against the advice of much of his family. Years later, the recipient is doing fine but the author (on his way to becoming a doctor), has reviewed the risks of being a donor and now is nervous about the whole thing.
This is an accurate summary. One thing I'd like to add is that there was nothing that the receiver did that provoked the regret. I read this assuming that something happened that caused it to not be worth it.
While this is a good view on this situation, the article is basically a guy saying that his comfort and security to have a long life is more important than the other guy's life. So I assumed that the other guy had done something to bring this to light but that is not the case. The donator had simply researched more and decided he was nervous.
To be clear: His interest in being secure in his life is fine and expected and I'm not judging him by what I said.
Re: A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
#10TL,DR: author voluntarily donated a kidney to his stepfather's brother, against the advice of much of his family. Years later, the recipient is doing fine but the author (on his way to becoming a doctor), has reviewed the risks of being a donor and now is nervous about the whole thing.
Also, our worthless medical system doesn't do even the most basic data analysis to answer basic questions for common procedures and runs on half-truths and inertia.
is that true ?, I thought there were stats on the outcomes of a lot of procedures.