The establishment had to be dragged kicking and screaming, but a Colorado man who bypassed the system received his kidney transplant today. Kudos and Godspeed to a pioneer.
Background here. Summary: we can't have ordinary people just doing their own thing, can we?
I should note that the hospital in question is just a few blocks from the house and is where the twins were born back in July.
Good for everyone involved. The donor pulled a Cartman and screamed that it's his body, he do what he want. Meanwhile, the doctors realized that letting the recipient die wasn't an option. Nobody loses except the media who got stuck with a non-story.
When I first saw this story on TV, the channel had a medical ethicist on who talked about the issues involved. At one point, the guy said that what we have to ask is whether the kidney belongs to the individual or to the community and that it comes down to an issue of fairness.
I can't tell you how disturbed I was.
Saw the same ethicist as Zomby. I too was boggled to learn that my spare kidney belongs to the community.