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Convicted rapist next in line for organ transplant — BioEdge

May 6, 2011 • Posted in Medicine & Health

http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9504/

Crime and Transplants — Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Bulletin

May 6, 2011 • Posted in Medicine & Health

http://bioethicsbulletin.org/archive/crime-and-transplants/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crime-and-transplants

Convicted rapist from Auburn may get life-saving heart transplant — Syracuse.com

May 6, 2011 • Posted in Medicine & Health

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/convicted_rapist_from_syracuse.html

Australia in Short Supply of Donors — TOPNEWS

May 4, 2011 • Posted in Atlas

http://topnews.us/content/239477-australia-short-supply-donors

NICUs May Be Source of Donor Organs — medpage TODAY

January 7, 2011 • Posted in Medicine & Health

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Transplantation/Transplantation/24208

Who Is Fit to Practice Medicine?

April 12, 2010 • Posted in Medicine & Health

First published 13 April 2009; reprinted here by the kind permission of www.bioethics.com (http://bioethics.com/author/jriley/)

Recently, I learned that Sweden is struggling with an important question: who should be trained as a physician? One particular student focuses this discussion. Karl Helge Hampus Svensson was banished a year ago from Sweden’s premier Karolinska Institute on the grounds that he had falsified high school records. Lying is not a noble activity for anyone, especially would-be physicians. Correction was necessary. Mr. Svensson was relieved of his medical student status. It was probably not the lying that caught the attention of the school officials, however. Mr. Svensson, ...read more