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11. Why Do So Many Donated Kidneys End Up in the Trash?

Nov 12, 2021
24:02
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Introduction
00:00 • 5min
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Sumet Mohan's Week End of Transplants
05:02 • 2min
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Are Usable Kidneys Being Wasted?
07:21 • 2min
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Donor Perspectives on Kidney Transplantation
09:17 • 2min
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Transplant Centers Reject Good Kidneys
10:52 • 2min
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Transplant Centers Aren't Incentivized to Transplant - That's the Problem
13:02 • 2min
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Transplant Centers Need to Change the Time Lines
14:57 • 2min
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Transplanting Kidneys From Living Donors Is a Global Problem
17:12 • 4min
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The Hidden Sid of Everything Stitcher Podcast
21:41 • 2min
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Every year, thousands of people in the U.S. die while they’re waiting for a new kidney, yet thousands of available organs get thrown away. Bapu talks to a kidney doctor and an economics Nobel laureate about why this happens and how the system could improve.

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