Supply Isn’t the Problem With Organ Transplants – The Wall Street Journal

One of the first things that transplant doctors learn is that there are not enough organs to go around. We repeat it to our patients and ourselves and, in a way, it helps us to temper our expectations of saving every patient on our waiting list. But there isn’t really an organ shortage. We are just failing to make effective use of the organs that we could transplant. I’ve worked in transplant programs for 25 years in Dallas, Birmingham and Denver, and then as director of the lung transplant program at Stanford University…