{"id":3816,"date":"2022-02-08T07:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:12:52","slug":"who-gets-an-organ-transplant-waitlist-rules-are-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/02\/08\/who-gets-an-organ-transplant-waitlist-rules-are-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Who gets an organ transplant? Waitlist rules are complicated."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3816\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Last week, a hospital in Boston removed a patient from its heart transplant waiting list over his refusal to receive a COVID vaccine. Although many hospitals had been enforcing such policies throughout the pandemic, the\u00a0news took off internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the spotlight on vaccination status ignores the complexities of organ transplantation outside the pandemic. \u201cThere are a ton of requirements for transplant eligibility,\u201d says Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at New York University. The ethics of transplant decision-making are different from those of other kinds of medical care, in large part because there are fewer organs than there are people in need. According to the American Transplant Foundation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantransplantfoundation.org\/about-transplant\/facts-and-myths\/#:~:text=Almost%20107%2C000%20people%20in%20the,for%20a%20lifesaving%20organ%20transplant.\">more than 100,000 Americans<\/a>\u00a0are currently on transplant waitlists. <br>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/health\/organ-transplant-eligibility-requirements\/?fbclid=IwAR2CplnYN0PmO-v8Yw4u8yNWBJafjM3WYl0KOtXvBytjmg4x59XY-XyVG6M\">more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3816\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Last week, a hospital in Boston removed a patient from its heart transplant waiting list over his refusal to receive a COVID vaccine. Although many hospitals had been enforcing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/02\/08\/who-gets-an-organ-transplant-waitlist-rules-are-complicated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who gets an organ transplant? 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