NECESSITY OF CLINICAL TOLERANCE PROTOCOLS IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATIONSince its clinical inception in 1954, organ transplantation has saved lives of many thousands of patients who were dying because of the failure of a single organ. As such, it is clear that transplantation has had enormous clinical success. However, it is likewise clear, both to transplant patients and to their physicians, that the life-long requirement for drug treatment to prevent transplant rejection causes

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Although advances in medical genetics are designed ultimately to help human beings receive better health care, they pose many problems for society. Some of these concerns are real, but others result from misunderstanding and/or misrepresentation of the true implication of certain developments in genetics. It is obvious that the geneticist must play a dual role in society as scientist and as advocate. Although such a duality or role is not easy, it is not impossible. However, it does mean that the training of the medical geneticist must include more than exposure to the scientific approach.

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