Is the Unified List System for Organ Transplants Fair? Analysis of Opinions from Different Groups in Brazil

Abstract

In the 1960s, when Dr. Belding Scribner discovered how to accomplish the process of dialysis in a repeated way, he could not imagine that in solving such a problem others as or more difficult would appear. Given the technological progress and the impossibility of assisting all patients through the most modern methods, the medical doctor often finds himself faced with the moral dilemma of choosing which patient in the waiting list will receive the treatment. This same dilemma is amplified in the case of organ transplants. Professionals, students, professors of the juridical and health fields, and the population in general, were interviewed as a means of documenting the moral concepts and opinions surrounding this problem. In the reality in which we find ourselves, it seems to us that deciding who lives, and the responsibility for all the events that culminate in such decisions, is still a subject left open to discussion.

Doação De Orgãos Para Transplantes: Informação E Opinião De Moradores Do Interior Do Estado De São Paulo

“…2,6,10,15 cONcLUSÃO Os resultados, embora restritos à população de uma região Noroeste do estado de São Paulo, revelam avanços na conscientização sobre a necessidade de doação de órgãos, sugerem necessidade de futuros estudos e a relevância da manutenção freqüente das campanhas pró-doação. Faz-se necessária maior participação dos indivíduos beneficiados pela doação nessas campanhas, visando representar um modelo que, por ter passado pelo processo de avaliação e espera por um órgão e transplante, pode evidenciar mais claramente as percepções associadas ao processo.…”