He Was Shocked When He Found Out Organ Donation. and How Rules R Not Followed
Kensuke Koike By Greg Segal Mr. Segal is the founder and chief executive of Organize, a nonprofit focused on reforming the organ donation system. New York Times For two years, I stopped answering my mother’s phone calls. My father was waiting for a lifesaving heart transplant, and I feared she was calling to tell me he’d run out of time. I’d let the call go to voice mail, hoping the tone of her voice would give me enough warning to steel myself before calling back. He survived, but only barely. At his sickest, his heart was pumping at just 8 percent capacity. After five years and three open-heart surgeries, he was on his way to meet an end-of-life counselor when a new heart finally became available. He received his transplant on Feb. 10, 2009. Four days later, our family celebrated Valentine’s Day with a new heart. Our joy was unequivocal; we didn’t yet know that the system that saved my dad could also produce so much harm. My dad blamed his lifelong Boston Red Sox ...
