Well, we’ve blogged the heck out of the stupidest Internet health story of the year, the matchingdonors.com kidney transplant that was almost stopped by the hospital ethics committee, then was allowed, then stopped because of PR. Denver’s bioethics director and transplant ethics scholar Mark Yarborough hits the issue on CBS.com, although we are still waiting for the story about how this happened in the first place. And how many people are sitting around waiting for a MatchingDonors.com “date.” We do know now (from this piece) that MatchingDonors.com puts all its money into the “maintenance of the web site,” which is a bit like a car dealership saying that all of the money it brings in goes to maintaining the car dealership…
Labels: buying organs, matchingdonors.com, organ transplants, stupid internet stories