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The decision to donate.

Brown Jm

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Abstract

This country's critical shortage of transplantable organs leads to the deaths of more than 4,000 patients awaiting transplants every year, which amounts to 12 or 13 deaths per day. While the potential number of organ donors in the United States ranges from 8,000 to 15,000 each year and numbers indicate that most people support the idea of organ donation, only about 5,500 deaths in the United States result in organ donation annually.

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This country's critical shortage of transplantable organs leads to the deaths of more than 4,000 patients awaiting transplants every year, which amounts to 12 or 13 deaths per day. While the potential number of organ donors in the United States ranges from 8,000 to 15,000 each year and numbers indicate that most people support the idea of organ donation, only about 5,500 deaths in the United States result in organ donation annually.

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This country's critical shortage of transplantable organs leads to the deaths of more than 4,000 patients awaiting transplants every year, which amounts to 12 or 13 deaths per day. While the potential number of organ donors in the United States ranges from 8,000 to 15,000 each year and numbers indicate that most people support the idea of organ donation, only about 5,500 deaths in the United States result in organ donation annually.

Key concepts: Organ donation, Economic shortage, Donation, Medicine, Demography, Political science, Transplantation, Surgery

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