Organ donor system: An unholy mess

Transplants should be seen as miracles

During the years I worked as a journalist, I wanted to avoid the appearance of partisanship. So I had only one bumper sticker on my car.  It said: “Transplant Kidneys, Don’t Bury Them.”  

Call it a family obsession.  My sister Ellen got one of the very early kidney transplants in 1970, with our mother donating the organ.  Most consider transplants to be …