At 7:41 pm +0000 on 2/8/02, BODY-UK@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>Yes I too heard some fairly disparaging and alarmist remarks made on a few
>tv and radio broadcasts regarding the distribution of 'this valuable
>resource'. It disappoints me on one level - it reaffirms my opinion that a
>frightening amount of mis-information still influences the general public
>who have no 'first hand' knowledge of the selection process prior to a
>transplant operation. On another level I knew that Best's transplant would
>prove controversial - everyone is talking about not only HIS transplant, but
>the wider issue of organ donation and transplantation - that has got to
>good - surely!!
>
>I have received a few 'phone calls qustioning Best's meteoric rise to the
>front of the liver transplant queue. My respnse has been - his cross match
>tests with the donated liver and (in the case of two suitable matches say)
>his' clinical need' put him there, and we're none of us Angels!! (yet)

Yep, it IS good that people are talking about it. I think the reports
on his 'queue jumping' (as one report put it, are merely media
misunderstanding of how the system works.. One report went as far as
to say that he got the op done sooner due to private health care,..
when in fact he has had a combination of NHS & private care as far as
I am aware.
//
J


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