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Understanding risk in living donor nephrectomy
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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017First, Do No HarmShow More
The practice of living organ donation requires living persons to be willing to donate and medical practitioners to perform the surgical interventions. In the case of the vast majority of kidney donors, there is no doubt of their altruistic motives; indeed one could argue that donating their kidneys constitutes a supererogatory act on their part. The moral difficulty, however, lies with the medical practitioner performing a...
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