About organ transplants.?
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What your transplant team tells you varies by hospital. Generally speaking, you might learn the donor's age, gender and cause of death. Possibly what geographic area they came from. But due to HIPAA rules, this information is much more restricted than it used to be. People have been known to search the obituaries looking up their donors, and tracking down their donor families. So the hospitals are much more careful about it nowadays.
You can write to your donor family (anonymously), and if both you and the family express an interest in knowing each other directly, and are willing to sign forms saying so, the organ recovery organization will usually enable direct communication.
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i dunno, but in some cases you may not want to know.. what if your organ came from a killer.. would u still want it .
My brother had a kidney and panceras transplant 12 years ago. If the person recieving the organs wants to know who the donor is they are allowed as long as the donors family doesn't mind telling them. In my brothers case.he wanted to know so he could thank them and tell them how much their sons gift meant to him and his life. But.they didn't want him knowing and it ended there.Hope this helps. Take care! It depends on whether the donor's family wish the recipients to know. It is mainly up to them to leave their details but I think transplant counsellors are very careful about releasing details.
It's entirely possible to find out.
If you receive a living donation of a kidney or part of a liver, you probably will know who gave it to you.
If the organ's from a deceased donor, then you still may be able to find out; during Redford's Oscar speech, he mentioned that his heart formerly belonged to a young woman, and so he has another 50 years left. Note that the doctor-patient confidentiality priviledge expires upon death, so there's no legal restriction on finding out who donated the organs.
the only way to find out is if the donors family is willing to let you know. the transplant coordinator can tell you if the donor was male or female and age but that's it. speaking from my own experiences, the only way you know the donor is if the family wishes to give out their name. unless it is a living donor like in a kidney transplant you may know that person before having the transplant. non living donor it is left up to the familymembers of the person that they harvested the organs
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