Organ Transplants Quotes
Some members of Congress were asking her to step into a particular case where a young girl was dying and might only be saved by a lung transplant. There were no child lungs available and there was a rule against using an adult lung in a child. If the Secretary overruled the rule the child might survive, but them some adult would not have a lung available for transplant. The secretary refused to intervene for this reason.
Criticizing restrictive health care policies regarding organ transplantation:
He had just published a paper for the American Association for the Advancement of Science reporting on his development of techniques to transplant arteries from one animal to another. This was the beginning of transplantation. However, immediately he envisioned the possibility of transplanting all organs in humans including the heart. It would take half a century for Dr. Christian Barnard to actually transplant a heart, but the idea was not novel. It had been a goal since Flexner made this quotation.
