Published 4 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4546
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4546

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From the Frontline

It’s better to give

Des Spence, general practitioner, Glasgow

destwo@yahoo.co.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

As a child, a day meanders; as a teenager, the weeks roll; in your 20s the months tumble; and after you have children the years whizz by—I recall not a day of my 30s. We greedily squander time, taking it for granted. Until the "it’ll never happen to me" inevitably does. Then time is the only valued possession: anything for a few moments more with our loved ones. I once carried an organ donor card, but it perished in the part of my wallet full of video shop cards and business cards from pushy colleagues I had taken only out of politeness.

The UK has a chronic lack of transplant organs, and attempts are being made to increase donation. But currently only 60% of relatives agree to requests to donate if the patient is not on the organ donation register. Proposals for presumed consent schemes have faltered, amid resistance and . . . [Full text of this article]


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