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    Liver Transplants, Recovered Alcoholics, and Alcoholics

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    In eight pages whether or not recovered alcoholics and alcoholics should receive equal opportunity when it comes to receiving livers for transplantation is evaluated through asking tough questions and establishing relevant criteria. There are seven bibliographic sources cited.

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    number of donor livers available. Therefore, difficult questions must be asked and criteria set to deal with it. Bibliography lists 7 sources. BWlivalc.wps  Who Deserves a Liver Transplant? for - November 2000 -- for more information on using this paper  properly! Introduction More than 50,000 people in the United States were listed on the national organ transplant waiting list in January of 1997. According to Giuliano (1997), most  were also expected to die while waiting for their necessary organ transplant. The average cost for a liver transplant operation and the first year of treatment after the operation  is about $200,000. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA (4/21/99), approximately 4,000 of those 50,000 waiting people received a liver transplant in the United States in  1997. The Costs and Questions of Resource Allocation Although the treatment is undeniably advantageous, it is generally difficult to rationalize its cost that can, depending on complications, reach as  high as half a million dollars. Most of the cost for the enormously comprehensive medical and ancillary care process is for the medical treatment and care that is actually received  before the operation. This, then, is in turn related to the significant shortage of donor organs. While research and development efforts are underway to find alternatives, such as organs grown  in culture and organs from animals, the fact remains that there are those circumstances in which ethical judgements as to who "deserves" the transplant and what the criteria for that  determination may (or may not) be. The simple and undeniable fact is that the number of people with liver disease and other related conditions who could significantly benefit from a 

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