EDITOR—Conspicuously absent from the article by Friedman et al,1 and from the rapid responses to it that have been published to date, is a detailed account of the inevitable morbidity and risk of serious harm that is inflicted on the donor by doctors in the course of their ordinary paid employment. The short term risks include life threatening haemorrhage, pulmonaryembolism, pneumothorax, infection, transfusion transmitted hepatitis, …