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15. You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let's Do It!

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Organ Donors

Lewis Gold Frank is the chairman of emergency medicine at New York University. He started reading medical journals from france and spain to find new ways to improve organ donation in the U.S. Many european countries practice presumed consent which means that unless your family specifically opts out It's presumed that you have consented to donate your organs upon death. So when gold frank began talking about a similar plan for new york sending organ harvesting units into the field The reaction wasn't so warm We had a host of individuals who said this is a vulture buses. These are people at ghouls They're not concerned about us any longer. But he got it done And just a few weeks

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