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Ms. Toad

(34,137 posts)

38. Alcoholics DO get new livers.

Reply to BlueIdaho (Reply #26)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 06:56 PM

Jan 2022

Most states require 6 months of abstention, but that doesn't make an alcoholic not an alcoholic.

In addition, the trend is to shorten (or even eliminate) the waiting period for liver transplants.

(I have no personal knowledge as to the rules for lung transplants - but I have both personal knowlege and research-based knowledge about liver transplants. Smoking may be different - since smoking hinders healing = generally)

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Message auto-removed [View all] Name removed Jan 2022 OP

Put the selfish bastards at the bottom of all waiting lists. Doodley Jan 2022 #1

When vaxxed heart patients can't get treated because of anti-vaxxers filling the hospital wards... TheBlackAdder Jan 2022 #25

The New York Post is a shitty source. W_HAMILTON Jan 2022 #2

Someone doesn't understand "human rights" Effete Snob Jan 2022 #3

Sorry, you said it better. MuseRider Jan 2022 #6

Great response! Docreed2003 Jan 2022 #12

Health care IS a human right MuseRider Jan 2022 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2022 #10

Whatever is required by the physicians. MuseRider Jan 2022 #18

No Effete Snob Jan 2022 #30

Like availing yourself of the offered healthcare. If you choose not to avail yourself Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #32

Methinks this person is not, shall we say, being forthright in their agenda. Nevilledog Jan 2022 #17

Yeah, seems a little much but a legit question. MuseRider Jan 2022 #19

If I died and donated my heart, I would not want it potentially going to waste if the person ended Quixote1818 Jan 2022 #5

Too risky and could be a waste of a valuable heart StarryNite Jan 2022 #7

Why change the rules now? Runningdawg Jan 2022 #8

To the poll respondents who state "health care is a human right," a transplant is NOT... hlthe2b Jan 2022 #9

is just covid vaccine or other vaccines too? AlexSFCA Jan 2022 #11

Health care is a human right Beausoleil Jan 2022 #13

Health care is a human right; however, if the recipient intentionally refuses certain aspects Ocelot II Jan 2022 #14

Gosh! Your post reminds me of this guy. Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #15

I didn't know who that was. Tommy Carcetti Jan 2022 #20

Da! Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #27

Shhhh. DURHAM D Jan 2022 #21

My brother had a transplant there arlyellowdog Jan 2022 #16

One can not even take one puff off a cigarette for 6 months FarPoint Jan 2022 #22

Should we give lung transplants to people who will not give up smoking? Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #23

... tenderfoot Jan 2022 #24

Mmmm. Pizza! Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #29

Alcoholics don't get new livers, Smokers don't get new lungs BlueIdaho Jan 2022 #26

Alcoholics DO get new livers. Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #38

Silly. Russian search engines have no hearts. Tommy Carcetti Jan 2022 #28

But didn't you say you were eagerly awaiting a fourth vaccine? Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #31

Health care is a right BUT he chose not to accept it. Talitha Jan 2022 #33

This shouldn't even be a question? Spider Jerusalem Jan 2022 #34

RW Rupert Murdoch rag-sourced shit-stir post. De-rec. Welcome to DU Celerity Jan 2022 #35

:) How many devoting their lives to healthcare of others don't life Hortensis Jan 2022 #36

Your second option misses the point. Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #37