Jonas Kavaliauskas's List: deny transplant

• At UK Transplant we are doing everything with one focus - to save or improve the  lives of thousands of people every year through organ transplantation.

• to the <!-- enter figure here if script breaks eg 13,000,000 -->15,285,777 people – 25% of the population – who have said  they want to help others to live after their death by joining the NHS Organ  Donor Register.
• The Football League is backing a campaign to coincide with the 40th anniversary  of the UK’s first heart transplant which took place on 3 May 1968.
• Nicholas Clarkson has just become the millionth person to join the life-saving  NHS Organ Donor Register via the Boots Advantage Card scheme

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• The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transplant  because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical consideration
• Timothy Garon, 56, used marijuana to ease the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C
• Dr. Brad Roter, the physician who authorized Garon to smoke pot to alleviate  nausea and abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite — a use authorized under  a Washington state law approved by voters in 1998 — said he had not known it  would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant.
• Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the  liver-transplant list.
• Although medical marijuana may be an issue in rare cases, it is never  the sole determinant in arriving at medical decisions about candidates for organ  transplants,

• The statement also noted that there are about 98,000 patients waiting for  organs in the United States and only 6,000 donors available.
• 60-day drug-treatment program, but his liver disease was too advanced by then  for him to last that long, doctors told him. The university-hospital committee  agreed to reconsider its decision, then denied him again.

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• The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transplant  because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical

• Medical Marijuana Patient Dies After Being Refused Liver Transplant

• The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transplant  because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical  consideration:
• Should pot use with a doctor's blessing be held against a dying patient who  needs an organ transplant?
• Timothy Garon, 56, used marijuana to ease the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C.
• Dr. Brad Roter, the physician who authorized Garon to smoke pot to alleviate  nausea and abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite — a use authorized under  a Washington state law approved by voters in 1998 — said he had not known it  would be such a hurdle if Garon were to need a transplant.

• The statement also noted that there are about 98,000 patients waiting for  organs in the United States and only 6,000 donors available.

• No one tracks how many patients are denied transplants over medical-marijuana  use. Pro-marijuana groups have cited a handful of cases, including at least two  patient deaths, in Oregon and California, since the mid- to late 1990s, when  states began adopting medical-marijuana laws.

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