Weekly highlights - and links to reports/commentaries
1. Heart transplant - MAS
2. Myanmar's violence to silence- there
3. Methadone programme for drug addicts -MAS
4. Deporting and banning Bangladeshi immigrants - MAS
5. Jena Six - USA
*This is not new, but interesting: racial tensions still deeply ingrained in parts of the US.*
6. I hate sports pages... so anything in sports please let us know.
I'm sure all of us had debated organ transplants and organ donations one way or another. Be it the idea of who gets the transplant, the black market and organ "selling", or the rights to organs.
The recent case where Tee Hui Yee, a 14-year-old living on a mechanical heart for about one year, gets not one, but two heart transplants within the span of 1 week. The donor's picture was in the frontpage of nearly every newspaper in town. We celebrated the generosity of the young man, who was killed in the accident. I wonder what happened to the general rule that donors aren't supposed to reveal their identities.
That sparked an idea of a motion: THBT transplant patients can have a second chance.
Do give your supporting or dissenting arguments in the comment box below, or if you have problems with the motion, do shout-out! =)
Cheers, WW
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Hi! We have just conducted a debate on THW pirioritise organ transplant on the basis of life style. Will Posted the summary as soon as me or any of us finish it..sorry ya! I though Nina has posted the summary of THW ban cosmetic surgery? If you haven't received it, then I think problably she has sent to the wrong mail...quite busy these few days. Lots to catch up...got a patient dianosed of organophospophate poisoning (just a case study lah...hehe!) well, ope you getting well too. I'm planing to register as organ donor this Fri. How about you? Just curios abou that, hehe...ok lah. Take care!
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