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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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 Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:53 pm Post subject: American donates organs to Koreans |
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thought this kind and caring woman deserves a mention.
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he family of a 52-year-old American teacher pronounced brain dead while living in Korea donated her organs to several South Korean patients last week in the nation�s first such case, hospital officials said yesterday.
Linda R. Freel collapsed from a sudden cerebral hemorrhage last Thursday while teaching students at the International Christian School in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi, and was declared brain dead at a Seoul hospital. One day later, Rex Freel, her husband and headmaster of the school, expressed his will to donate her organs according to her wishes, and her body was transferred to Seoul St. Mary�s Hospital in southern Seoul, hospital officials said.
After a four-hour surgery, doctors harvested her liver, kidneys, corneas, bone tissues and skin, which were immediately transplanted into two kidney patients, one patient with a liver problem and two patients who lost their sight, officials said.
Freel�s skin was stored for later use.
The organ recipients are now recovering, they added.
The couple came to South Korea 14 years ago and has worked on Christian missions and taught students at the Christian school, a school official said, noting that the widower cannot be reached for comment.
Because organ viability decreases the longer a patient is brain dead, the family�s quick decision was critical to successfully transplant the organs into other patients, said Yang Cheol-woo, a senior doctor at the transplant center in the Seoul St. Mary�s Hospital.
Yang noted that Freel was the first Westerner to donate her organs in Korea.
�While 35 of 1 million Americans donate their organs, five of 1 million South Koreans do so, leading to a shortage of organ donations here,� Yang said. �Linda Freel�s donation will contribute to letting others learn about the noble spirit of sharing life.�
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Los Angeloser
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:14 am Post subject: |
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Bless her(and husband) heart, soul, and may the donation help others in a big way. I wonder whether hospitals profit from body parts after a donation?
After transplant patient's family goes to pay...
Patient's family: How much for an eye?
Hospital: Price up for those(insert color) eyes and lids.
Patient's family: Okay, and the skin?
Hospital: Double value for that(insert color) skin. |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Los Angeloser wrote: |
Bless her(and husband) heart, soul, and may the donation help others in a big way. I wonder whether hospitals profit from body parts after a donation?
After transplant patient's family goes to pay...
Patient's family: How much for an eye?
Hospital: Price up for those(insert color) eyes and lids.
Patient's family: Okay, and the skin?
Hospital: Double value for that(insert color) skin. |
actually, that's an interesting point.
I guess the new patient will have to pay for labor. but does the new patient really have to pay for product? as the product was a donation...
I mean aren't all body parts donated after all. |
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