Recently added articles from Progress in Transplantation:
Courage and character, leaders and legends: an interview with Joel Cooper, MD, FACS, FRCPS
Dec 01, 2008; ... We are lawyers in the defense of life. Society's job is a financial issue considering limited resources. Joel Cooper, June 2008 I took the train from Washington to Philadelphia to meet Dr Joel Cooper at the University of Pennsylvania. The 2-hour train ride gave me the opportunity ...
An opportunity to correct an error and any misimpressions
Dec 01, 2008; ... We wish to correct an error in our case report published in the March issue, "Factitious Wound Infections in an Altruistic Living Liver Donor" (2008:2224). We wrote that "the donor's hospital bill exceeded $500 000, all of which had been billed to the recipient's insurance." This statement was ...
Scope and standards for transplant nursing
Dec 01, 2008; ... The article by Gwen McNatt in the September issue titled "Nursing and Transplant Coordination: A Call for Clarity" (2008:208-215) is a timely report. We appreciate the thorough review and discussion presented by the author. We are pleased to report that an effort to delineate transplant ...
Correction
Dec 01, 2008; ... The article "An analysis of critical care staff's attitudes to donation in a country with presumed-consent legislation" in the September issue of Progress in Transplantation (2008:173-178) was published without ...
Skin cancer education in transplant recipients
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the past 20 years, long-term survival for solid-organ transplant recipients has improved dramatically; about 223000 patients are alive in the United States with organ transplants today. As survival rates improve, however, the morbidity and mortality associated with lifelong immunosuppressive ...