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Volume 358:1209-1211 March 20, 2008 Number 12 Next

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Organ transplantation is truly one of the miracles of modern medicine, saving the lives of many patients and improving the quality of life for many more. Given the ever-increasing gap between the number of organs needed and the supply, clinicians have an ethical obligation to help ensure that the desires of people who want to donate organs are respected. The Department of Health and Human Services took up this challenge in 2003, when it collaborated with leading transplantation organizations to launch the Breakthrough Collaborative, calling on all hospitals to increase their organ-donation rates to 75% or higher.

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Dr. Truog is a professor of medical ethics and anesthesia (pediatrics) in the Departments of Anesthesia and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston — both in Boston.

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Organ Donation and Dual Advocacy
Luskin R. S., Glazier A. K., Delmonico F. L.
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N Engl J Med 2008; 358:1297-1298, Mar 20, 2008. Correspondence

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