Doctors Should Respect 'Dead' Organ Donor's Wishes to Donate Organs, Despite Family's Refusal

The simplest way to increase the number of donated organs is to ensure doctors respect the wishes of the 'deceased' person to donate organs and over rule any last minute veto from the family of the dead person preventing organ donation. It has recently been suggested that patients should be kept alive using elective ventilation to facilitate the harvesting of organs for donation. But David Shaw, Honorary Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen believes there is a ...

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