Transplant Recipient Speaks Out-San Francisco Gate

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Transplant Recipient Speaks Out: Shame On The American Diabetes Association

Palm Desert, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2011

A transplant recipient and past National Public Citizen of the Year as awarded by the National Association of Social Workers, Dr. Richard Darling, is criticizing the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for not taking a proactive stance with organ-donor policy makers in support of trial projects of new organ-donor policies to reverse America's crisis.

Darling's facts show that the present organ-donor system-agreeing to donate after death-is failing miserably in meeting the demand for organs as evidenced by the fact that one person on the transplant list dies every 52 minutes. Darling's assessment: "That's outrageous."


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