Non-Profits Are Their Own Reward

It looks as if Israel's attack on Iran has been muted. Their public disdain for America's position was not.

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Non-Profits Are Their Own Reward

The United Network for Organ Sharing is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network in the United States. It was established by the U.S. Congress in 1984.

Here are some elements brought to light by Organize, another non-profit patient advocacy group that under an 'innovative' program embedded with the HHS and working with HHS staff produced hard data. They are particularly outraged by the current kidney donor monopoly.

Advocacy groups--especially when funded by government--are always a bit hard to be sure of but here are some of their claims.

One out of every four kidneys that are recovered from an American organ donor is thrown in the trash.

Organs are literally lost and damaged in transit every single week. The OPTN contractor is 15 times more likely to lose or damage an organ in transit than an airline is a suitcase.

Organs are not GPS-tracked!

Seventeen percent of kidneys are offered to at least one deceased person before they are transplanted. The tracking system for patients is so dysfunctional that 17% of kidneys are offered to patients who are already dead.

Medicine is obsessed with self-scrutiny where physicians evaluate themselves and their colleagues. The prototype: M&M conference, Mortality and Morbidity where a week or month of complications are publicly reviewed and decisions debated--by the participants. But the infrastructure, the architecture where the practice of medicine lives, is never questioned.