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Mon Jun 12 14:18:32 BST 2006

I don't know about you but my hospital risk manager is so risk averse that the likelihood that they ok an organ retrieval over the family's expressed refusal, state law or not is unmeasurably small. This is not to mention the headlines "Memorial Hospital Stole My Husband's Organs." Call me cynical but it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Bill

William J. Bromberg
Savannah Surgical Group
912 350-7412

>>> John_R_Hall at Wellmont.org 06/11/06 02:11AM >>>
Another State has seen the light:

New Illinois Law Expected to Increase Organ Donations by 10 Percent

Image: Illinois	
According to the Rockford Register Star, Illinois has the largest Organ Tissue Donor Registry in the country with six million people (or half of the state's population) in the registry.  Pennsylvania is next on the list with four million people, about one-third of its population. 

Even with such a large list, Illinois is striving to do better.  Recent legislation has been passed that shifts the previous state registry to a system of organ donation called "First-Person Consent."

In the past, families were able to make the final decision with regard to organ donation, regardless of the donor's previous consent.  According to the Illinois Web site http://www.lifegoeson.com/, "Now with the new First-Person Consent Organ/Tissue Donor Registry, a person's indication that he or she wants to be an organ/tissue donor will be a legally binding decision, one that does not require family permission."

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