Scary ethical dilemma:
Organ transplants: Playing God | The Economist: A young girl wanted some new lungs. The rules said she could not have lungs from an adult donor, only from another child. That meant she would probably die.
Janet and Francis Murnaghan complained that the rules discriminated against their daughter Sarah, a ten-year-old being treated for cystic fibrosis in Philadelphia. So they sued to put her on the waiting list for adult lungs. Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary, ordered a review of the policy but was hesitant to meddle further. A conservative editorial called her “a death panel of one”.
Organ transplants: Playing God | The Economist: A young girl wanted some new lungs. The rules said she could not have lungs from an adult donor, only from another child. That meant she would probably die.
Janet and Francis Murnaghan complained that the rules discriminated against their daughter Sarah, a ten-year-old being treated for cystic fibrosis in Philadelphia. So they sued to put her on the waiting list for adult lungs. Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary, ordered a review of the policy but was hesitant to meddle further. A conservative editorial called her “a death panel of one”.
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