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Article: Officials devise new: ; organ donor card; Cards would end confusion by families, official says
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 5, 2001
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WASHINGTON - In a major effort to increase organ donation,
federal officials are devising a national organ donor card that they
hope will make clear potential donors' wishes. The idea is to give
transplant coordinators a stronger case for proceeding with
donation, regardless of a family's permission, by making the donor
cards legal documents that carry more weight than a driver's license
or unofficial donor card.
It is one element of a plan that Tommy Thompson, secretary of the
Health and Human Services Department, plans to make public later
this month, according to an agency official speaking on condition of