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Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
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Re: Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
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In short, yes, because the preservation of human life supersedes other religious considerations.
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#13It doesn’t mention the most important thing. Does he have to take immunosuppressants? If so is it for the rest of his life.
It does at the end of the article: "The procedure was performed under a Food and Drug Administration protocol known as a compassionate use provision, which is granted to patients with life-threatening illness who might benefit from an unapproved treatment. New drugs to suppress the immune system and prevent rejection of the organ were also used under the protocol."
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> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people.
Thats not a reasonable interpretation.
They're just saying that the recipient is a member of a group with higher rates of kidney disease, and therefore the transpant techniques may particularly (but not solely) benefit that group.
The rest of your comment is unnecessary supposition.
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> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people. Thats not a reasonable interpretation. They're just saying that the recipient is a member of a group with higher rates of kidney disease, and therefore the transpant techniques may particularly (but not solely) benefit that group. The rest of your comment is unnecessary supposition.
Dude is just looking for a culture war.
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#16It doesn’t mention the most important thing. Does he have to take immunosuppressants? If so is it for the rest of his life.
It does mention that? Read the whole article.
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#17It's hard for me to imagine the bravery it takes to sign up for this -- even if you're dying already, something like this is unlikely to result in a peaceful final days on earth (between being a science experiment, the media, optional major traumatic surgery, etc...). The folks undergoing this are incredibly admirable.
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> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people.
I don't see that being a possible reading.
> Imagine, for the sake of argument, that it happens to be true for zookeepers, and the patient happened to also be a zookeeper. Would they have said "The patient is a zookeeper, and the procedure may have special significance for zookeepers, who suffer high rates of end-stage kidney disease?"
I mean, if one can get beyond the implausibility of your example, maybe? If the authors of the article were aware of it, I can absolutely see them pointing that kind of thing out in other cases. But at the same time, so what?
> Or did an editor see an earlier draft and say something like: "Hey, there isn't a single mention of any race issue in this article. Not cool. So not cool."
Is there some evidence I'm not aware of the the New York Times mentions race issues in every (or even most) articles?
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> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people. Thats not a reasonable interpretation. They're just saying that the recipient is a member of a group with higher rates of kidney disease, and therefore the transpant techniques may particularly (but not solely) benefit that group. The rest of your comment is unnecessary supposition.
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Inequality exists in the health system, especially for exclusive treatments like supply-limited organ transplants. Pretending it doesn't is ignorant and naive.