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Apple To Encourage Organ Donation With Health App (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple announced today that its updated Health app, which will be available as part of iOS 10, will allow people to sign-up to be organ donors. The app will use its Medical ID feature, which has been used in the past to keep track of medical and health information, to include the ability to register as a donor of organs, eyes and tissues. The registrations will be forwarded to the National Donate Life Registry, an organization managed by Donate Life of America. All you need to do is tap the registration button in the Health app to volunteer as an organ donor. That adds your status as a donor to an "emergency information" screen that can appear even when the phone is locked. Tapping another button brings up information on organ donation. The demand for organs greatly exceeds the supply, as more than 120,000 Americans are currently waiting for a transplant -- every 10 minutes a new person is added to that waiting list, according to Apple. The feature is currently available for developers, but will be rolling out to the public in the public beta soon.
I'm not sure why this is news, here. Organ donation has been part of the Apple Store for years now. Wake me when they ask for more than just arms and legs!
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This kind of thought demonstrates ignorance. it's based on the false belief that somehow, the organ donors get WORSE treatment than dead people.
The truth is that if you can't respond but could recover, and are not a an organ donor, they simply pull the plug and let you die. Then they bury the organs you worked so hard to prevent
other people from getting.
It takes more than simply not responding to get you marked as dead.
The number of people that a) can't respond, yet b) can still live if they pull the plug are remarkably small.
If you are an organ donor, then they take extra steps to make sure you are really dead.
So being an organ donor makes it LESS likely that you will be killed (by turning off the machines), rather than more.
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I'm a registered organ recipient. I don't want some hack of a doctor pulling the plug on me just because they want to harvest my parts. Recognizing that they are going to do whatever they can to make a buck, I would much rather be on record as "Keep me alive by expensive surgery of donated organs" than "I willingly donate my parts so that you can keep someone else alive".
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I wish that organ donating was an opt out system instead of an opt in system. It's not like anyone will miss their organs anyway.
thats the same info i got from my friends who work in hospitals as well. it may not be malice, but its not worth the risk to me personally
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That poses an interesting question. If everyone were an organ donor automatically, would there be as much need for any individual's organs such that a doctor would ever be faced with that situation as spare organs would be plentiful enough so that there really wouldn't be a waiting list?
Going by this data from the CDC (PDF warning), about 150k people between the ages of 15-44 died in the US in 2007. Not all of those organs will be usable for donation for various reasons, but I suspect that it would put a pretty big dent in the number of people waiting on a donation. If you relax the criteria a bit more and include people 45-54, you get another ~180k potential donors. Go up to 64 years and you nearly double the amount again.
"If you are an organ donor, then they take extra steps to make sure you are really dead."
Nurse: Here's one.
Organ Collector: Nine pence.
Organ Donor: I'm not dead.
Organ Collector: What?
Nurse: Nothing. [hands the collector his money] There's your nine pence.
Organ Donor: I'm not dead!
Organ Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Nurse: Yes he is.
Organ Donor: I'm not.
Organ Collector: He isn't.
Nurse: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Organ Donor: I'm getting better.
Nurse: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Organ Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Organ Donor: I don't want to go on the cart.
Nurse:' Oh, don't be such a baby.
Organ Collector: I can't take him.
Organ Donor: I feel fine.
Nurse: Oh, do me a favor.
Organ Collector: I can't.
Nurse: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Organ Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Nurse: Well, when's your next round?
Organ Collector: Thursday.
Organ Donor: I think I'll go for a walk.
Nurse: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
Organ Donor: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[The collector paces for an idea, then whacks the body with his club, solving the problem]
Nurse: Ah, thank you very much.
Organ Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Nurse: Right.
Just being in a hospital is dangerous. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in this country. I bet the AMA doesn't brag about that stat!
Thanks, but no thanks. I intend to leave this world with the same parts I had when I came into it.
She's in a major-city hospital now, and one of the best in the world prior. You'd be shocked how badly hospital staff are taught about law and how misunderstood things like organ donor status and do not resuscitate orders are. Again, it's not about malice or effort - it's simply not understanding what a status like "organ donor" means.
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I was thinking more about this one.
organdonor.gov says, "an average of 22 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs."
I'm a registered organ donor. After I die, I won't need my heart, kidneys, etc. But other people will.
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Can it sign up people who text-and-drive automatically? How about those who wander across crosswalks against the signal while glued to their phone?
Interestingly Android N has this built in too. A new emergency contact screen has been added allowing you to add contacts that will appears under 'emergency call' when your screen is locked. Along side this, you can specify some information about yourself, like date of birth, blood type, and whether you are an organ doner. And it doesn't require that you installed an app first - it's part of the OS.
That seems to be an indictment of your hospital (or possibly your wife) rather than the entire system.
Since the system contains hospitals like that, and you cannot know with certainty which hospital you'll end up in if you're injured (even if you are injured next door to a hospital, you can end up trucked to a different one for a variety of reasons) it is in fact an indictment of the entire system.
Among other things, hospitals put MORE effort to saving organ donors than they do for non-organ donors.
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Oh, yes, though I was really responding to the "make sure you're dead" part. More importantly, I haven't seen Meaning of Life in a decade or longer.
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