Should Donate A Kidney - 1643 Words

In Today’s society there is an influx of healthcare problems surrounding one specific organ known as the kidney. Specifically, one of the problems surrounding the kidney is the lack of donations received on a yearly basis by people like myself. According to McDonnell (2014) as of December 2012, â€Å"nearly 95,000 people in the United States were waiting for a kidney transplant. Unfortunately, due to a shortage in Kidney donors only a small percentage of those people actually received a kidney† (McDonnell, 2014, p. 1). Hence, the main issue however that lies within donating is the choice whether to donate or to not donate simply because it is often believed that both kidneys are needed to survive. Nevertheless, in knowing that the human body†¦show more content†¦More than likely if there’s any issues with the kidney its causes a domino effect where the kidney produces enormous issues and if those issues aren’t taken care of, one can die. A point often overlooked are the types of kidney donations which are direct donation, pair exchange donation and Good Samaritan donation. Just because one has different blood type has other person that shouldn t be the reason why you shouldn t donate. A way you could donate could be direct donor who generally knows the person who is receiving the kidney transplant. If the donor is compatible, the donor s kidney can be transplanted directly into the person who needs the kidney. However , the main issue with direct donation is that direct donors are often incompatible or poorly compatible with their intended patient which means they are not the right blood type or do not pass a cross match test with the patient. However, a donor can still help their intended patient get a transplant if they are incompatible by participating in a paired exchange. Similarly, another way one can get involved is through paired exchanged donations in which a person donates his/or hers own kidney to another patient in exchange for a compatible kidney for their loved one. For example a father and his son are incompatible along with a mother and her husband who are also incompatible. In this exchange, the father in