#Patients
A key driver of anxiety about #healthcare in England is a the chaotic communication(s) that confront most #patients (which I have experienced myself on many occasions while dealing with my wife's ongoing mobility issues).
We shouldn't be surprised that over-worked under-resourced staff in the grip of an #NHScrisis fail to always communicate clearly & effectively.
To sort this out, the #Tories wrecking of public health care needs to be reversed with the NHS fully funded
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/27/chaotic-communication-by-nhs-in-england-causing-treatment-delays
Dire conditions at al-Shifa Hospital revealed during Gaza pause | AJ #shorts
''According to Multiplex #PCR test results of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) from #samples collected from pediatric #patients with respiratory infections at #children's hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, it shows that the #Enterovirus and Human families #Rhinovirus predominates.
Next are #influenza and parainfluenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (#RSV) and bacteria (H. Influenza, Strep. pneumonia and #Mycoplasma pneumonia).''
#China, #Yuncheng: The central #hospital is making every effort to cope with the peak number of #patients with #Mycoplasma pneumoniae #pneumonia. Full: http://www.sxycrb.com/2023-11/23/content_322868.html
Industry-funded #trials find that #oseltamivir reduces hospitalisations in #influenza #patients, but this is not confirmed in other trials. Perhaps, it is just not feasible to take it early enough in a real-world setting.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805976
#UPDATE to our story on the lawyer who fought his #insurance provider after it denied payment for his doctor-ordered cancer treatment:
A federal judge has ordered Blue Cross and Blue Shield of #Louisiana to pay the full medical bill plus interest & legal fees.
The insurer argued it should only have to pay a fraction of the $96K he'd paid for the treatment.
#Health #HealthCare #BCBS #Lawsuits #Doctors #Patients #News
Another aspects of the #NHScrisis... with the pressure to free up beds & discharge #patients, the follow-up (and transitional care) is lacking leading to a increased possibility of readmission.
Again, whatever local reasons for these failings, its the #Tory defunding of the NHS that lies behind these failure... overstretched (burnout) staff are unsurprisingly focussed on the in-hospital problems they encounter daily, not what happens to patients when they leave hospital https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/19/patients-neglected-and-confused-after-leaving-hospital-says-nhs-watchdog
‘It’s basically #HellOnEarth’: #GazaCity left totally bereft of #healthcare
The raid on #alShifa #hospital by #Israeli forces forced out thousands of #patients and #MedicalStaff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/its-basically-hell-on-earth-gaza-city-left-totally-bereft-of-healthcare
#IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #OPT #Israel #IDF
Nearly 450 patients at a #Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/450-patients-massachusetts-hospital-exposed-hiv-hepatitis/story?id=104941135 #HepC #Hepatitis #HIV #Hospital #Patients #Salem #Endoscopy
So far, no infections have been reported among the patients, the hospital said.
No corrective action taken
Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years
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States have passed hundreds of laws to protect people from wrongful #insurance denials.
Yet from emergency services to fertility preservation, #insurers still say no.
#Health #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Legal #Court #CriminalJustice #Crime #Politics #News #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals
#Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the #Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him.
This Is How They Did It.
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A #Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival.
“We crossed the line,” says a former executive.
#Efficacy and #safety of #baricitinib or ravulizumab in adult #patients with severe #COVID19 (TACTIC-R): a randomised, parallel-arm, open-label, phase 4 trial, Lancet Resp Med.: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00376-4
Intravenous #VitaminC for #Patients Hospitalized With #COVID19 -
Two Harmonized Randomized Clinical Trials, #JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2811212?guestAccessKey=1b5c2168-9d21-47bc-8fa7-1290ac491da1&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=111423&utm_adv=000003602429
Health #insurance companies have turned to algorithms to effectively deny claims in batches.
Has your claim been subject to one of these denials?
You can try finding out by submitting a request for your claim file:
#Mississippi Jailed More Than 800 People Awaiting #Psychiatric Treatment in a Year.
Just One #Jail Meets State Standards.
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Counties in Mississippi are allowed to hold people awaiting court-ordered psychiatric treatment in jails only if the facilities meet safety and health standards, but there’s no funding to help them comply and no penalties if they don’t.
#MentalHealth #Health #CriminalJustice #Courts #Patients #News
78 plaintes pour « tromperie aggravée et blessures involontaires »
Le journal n'indique pas la qualité ou le métier des mis·es en cause : https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/life/article/quels-sont-ces-implants-vaginaux-mis-en-cause-par-des-dizaines-de-femmes-dans-le-parisien_225565.html
More #Patients #Die at Major #Gaza Hospital Amid #Fuel Delivery Dispute
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/12/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news
#Maine Rarely Sanctions Residential Care Facilities Even After Severe #Abuse or #Neglect Incidents
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From 2020 to 2022, Maine’s state health department cited residential care facilities for dozens of resident rights violations and hundreds of other deficiencies.
But it has imposed only one fine in response.
#Health #HealthCare #ElderAbuse #ElderCare #Patients #Doctors #Regulation #NewEngland #Safety #News
Under #bombardment, #Gaza #medics fight to save #patients with no #power, #water or #food
Just one #hospital in the territory is still able to take patients as #doctors and #nurses try to keep those in their care alive
#IsraelHamasWar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/under-bombardment-gaza-medics-fight-to-save-patients-with-no-power-water-or-food
#Palestine #OPT #Israel
#Utah Therapist Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Abusing #Patients During Sessions
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Scott Owen, who was considered an expert in helping struggling #gay Latter-day Saint men, is accused of assaulting his patients.
#Health #HealthCare #Therapy #LGBTQ #LDS #Crime #Assault #News #SexualAssault #MentalHealth #Provo
#Temple's #LewisKatz #SchoolofMedicine's new #program #educates #residents on #care for #trans, #nonbinary, and #intersex #patients
It addresses how many #physicians may assume #patients' #desires for their #bodies and #lives upon #comingout, which may not align with the #patients' actual #wishes.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pennsylvania #Medicine #Healthcare #Representation #Culture
#Patients don’t know how to navigate the #US #health system — and it’s costing them
https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/11/3/23943349/health-care-costs-medical-bills-debt-relief-forgiveness-insurance
#healthcare #hospitals #sickness #debt
Big #Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for #Cancer Treatment
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer.
But he was no ordinary #patient. He was a celebrated litigator.
And he was ready to fight.
#Health #HealthCare #BCBS #HealthInsurance #Patients #Doctors #News #Louisiana #Texas #Lawyers #Lawyer
#Nike laces up for sneaker patent lawsuit against #NewBalance
#Boston #Brighton #sneakers #lawsuits #patients https://www.universalhub.com/2023/nike-laces-sneaker-patent-lawsuit-against-new
#NHS patients hit by ‘severe #DrugShortages’ due to #Brexit red tape
#Patients put at risk as crisis hits supplies of vital #antibiotics, #HRT and #AntiDepressants
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-brexit-medicine-supply-shortage-b2442211.html
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BrexitBonus
Je découvre ça: Docadom, service de permanence médicale privée. 😬
https://docadom.ch
Uber avec des médecins à vélo. 🤢
Dans la politique des données, il y a, en dehors des données qui circulent aux USA et en France, ça: "Certains de ces services fonctionnent par l’intermédiaire de serveurs dispersés géographiquement, de sorte qu’il est difficile de déterminer l’emplacement réel où les données personnelles sont stockées." 🤮
#protectionDesDonnées #medecine #DEP #Patients #LPD #nLPD
#Gender #refugees #overwhelm #sanctuarystates & face long #waitlists for #genderaffirming #Healthcare.
The #crush of new #patients is affecting longtime #residents as well.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Health #Healthcare #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#AbusivePractices And #ConversionTherapy #Ties: The #Rightwing Latches Onto #Finnish #Doctor #KaltialKaltiala. She published an #article in #BariWeiss' #TheFreePress, stating she helped "#pioneer" #trans #care.
The #reality is more akin to a #horrorstory for #patients at her #clinic.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/abusive-practices-and-conversion
#Ohio #Issue1 asks #voters if #healthcare should be left to #patients and #physicians, or #politicians
People Who Used Recalled #Philips Breathing Machines Face Painful Choices
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The devices at their bedsides were lifelines, until they learned the foam inside could break down and make them sick.
Now, they’re plagued by illness, lost sleep and worry.
#CPAP #Recalls #Safety #Sleep #Health #HealthCare #Patients #News
As #transgender #healthcare draws #patients to #NewMexico, #waitlists grow.
"With the #influx of #gender-#refugees, #waittimes have increased to the point that my #doctor and I have planned on #biyearly #exams," #FelixWallace, a 30-year-old #transman, said in an #email.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewMexico #Transitioning #Healthcare
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-health-care-new-mexico-waitlists/
#Russia, Most #patients with an unspecified #disease in the north of the #Krasnoyarsk Territory have recovered {#rickettiosis as possible cause}, https://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2023/10/30/21604027.shtml #EID #Infections #news
Europe’s healthcare ambitions: right diagnosis, wrong treatment [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/opinion/europes-healthcare-ambitions-right-diagnosis-wrong-treatment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EuropeanMedicinesAgency #Health #medicine #patients #promoted
1-2% of all admissions (95-167k #patients) acquired #COVID in hospitals in the UK from 06/2020 to 03/2021. Patients infected in #hospital were the key source of transmission to others. This unrecognized scale has direct implications for hospitals: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06634-z #health
She Trusted Her First OB-GYN Because He Spoke Spanish. Now She’s 1 of 94 Women Suing Him for Sexual Assault.
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The #Utah Supreme Court this week is hearing arguments in the case, which will determine if what 94 women say they experienced was #SexualAssault or medical #malpractice.
#Doctors #Patients #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #OBGYN #Women #Lawsuits #Courts #Crime #News
#Iconic #Orlando #dragqueen #givingaway #wigs to #cancer #patients.
#RitzyRagsWigsandMore #owner #LeighShannon wanted to #help spread #joy to #people during what can be a dark time.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Entertainment #Drag #DragQueens #Representation #Culture
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/iconic-orlando-drag-queen-giving-away-wigs-to-cancer-patients
‘The start of the #national #Aids #movement’: #ActUp’s defining moment in #queer #protest #history.
Desperate #Aids #patients and their #allies in the 80s confronted the #US #Government and ushered in a new era of #forceful #protests
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQHistoryMonth #History #Activism #Health #HIV #AIDS #Representation #Culture
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/11/act-up-hiv-aids-1988-fda-protest
A year after #KansasCity #investigation, another #trans #customer #turnedaway from a #Costco #pharmacy
Late last year, five other #transgender and #nonbinary #patients reported being #denied their #prescribed #testosterone and #Costco’s #pharmacy.
#TransMen #Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Transitioning #HRT #Costco #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
Columbia University Deals With Revelations About Its Decades-Long Failure to Stop a Predator
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Medical students have protested and survivors have expressed outrage following ProPublica’s investigation into how Columbia ignored warnings that former OB-GYN Robert Hadden was abusing patients.
#SexualAssault #Doctors #Columbia #Patients #Crime #CriminalJustice #Education #NYC #NewYork #OBGYN #News #Students #College
The problem #bedblocking where #patients are well enough to be discharged but there is insufficient #socialcare capacity to discharge them to, remains a key aspect of the #NHScrisis;
although this year things have improved (still) over 50% are not being discharged by the end of the day making it difficult t admit from A&E or from referrals.
To be clear, this is not the patients' fault (as the term 'bed blocking' can sometime imply), its a major structural problem that remains unresolved!
The goal is in part to persuade #women to carry doomed pregnancies, which can be emotionally & physically catastrophic.
#Republicans are even trying to redefine #abortion itself, claiming that they are doing so to clarify matters for #doctors & #patients. In truth, these are deliberate efforts to ensure that fetuses’ rights trump women’s rights, no matter the cost to women. And increasingly, that cost is very high.
So, once again we find that when things get tough, private #healthcare exports the problem to the #NHS.... and not only that, they can't even arrange their own transfer of #patients (in the case reported here, leading to the patient's death due to delay)... as always the private sector wants to retain the profits but wants the state to bail them out of trouble.
#SaveOurNHS don't expand the parasitic profiteering & cherry picking private health sector!
5 Documents That Helped Us Understand How #Columbia Protected a Predator
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For decades, Columbia obstetrician Robert Hadden was abusing #patients.
Here’s some of the #evidence ProPublica reporter Bianca Fortis used to investigate how the #university allowed it to happen.
#SexualAssault #Education #Hospitals #Doctors #Parents #Moms #Pregnancy #News #NewYork #NYC
@EU_Commission staff document 2022: "data holders are in control of their data, it's made available on a voluntary basis".
Commission's actual #EHDS proposal: "everyone will be forced to give up their medical records, sorry we need it."
UnitedHealthcare tried to deny Chris McNaughton health coverage. He fought back, filed a lawsuit and exposed the #insurance company’s inner workings.
None of the UnitedHealthcare representatives heard in this video responded to our requests for comment.
Shortly after we published our story, United settled Chris’ #lawsuit. The terms are confidential.
#HealthCare #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals #Health #News #Video #Audio
“Where Is There to Go?”
He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage.
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A #NorthCarolina policy that denies state employees coverage for gender-affirming care has been on hold pending appeal.
For one #transgender worker still awaiting surgery, the anxiety is “like somebody has got their hands around my neck.”
#Insurance #Lawsuits #Courts #CivilRights #HumanRights #HealthCare #Hospitals #Patients #Doctors #LGBTQ #News
How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years
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For decades, patients warned #Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden.
One even called 911 and had him arrested.
Columbia let him keep working.
#SexualAssault #Rape #Doctors #Patients #Hospitals #Privacy #Transparency #OBGYN #Parents #Mothers #Women #News #Crime #CriminalJustice #NewYork #NYC
How Health Insurers Have Made Appealing Denials So Complicated
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"I spoke with more than 50 insurance experts, patients, lawyers, physicians and consumer advocates about building a tool anyone could use to navigate insurance appeals.
"Nearly everyone said the same thing: Great idea. But almost impossible to do."
#Insurance #HealthCare #Health Hospitals #Patients #Doctors #Medicare #Medicaid
He Needed a Liver #Transplant. But Did the Risks Outweigh the Reward?
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A transplant program in #Memphis took pride in replacing the livers of #patients turned away by other #hospitals.
One patient’s liver transplant illustrates the promise and peril of operating on people with serious risk factors.
Director of Mental Health Center Replaced as New Report Says #Abuse at the Facility Hasn’t Stopped
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A new report by an advocacy agency details how abuse and neglect at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center have continued despite calls for and promises of reform.
Now, the #Illinois Department of Human Services has reversed its decision to keep Choate’s top leadership in place.
The Hidden Fee Costing #Doctors Millions Every Year
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A powerful #lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that #health insurers owe them.
Big companies rake in profits while doctors are saddled with yet another cost in a burdensome #HealthCare system.
No #regret: #TopSurgery #patients report 100% #satisfaction
A new #study from the #UniversityofMichigan found #regret for #GenderAffirming #Surgery was 0 out of 100.
#TransMen #Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Transitioning #Healthcare #TopSurgery #Regret
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/no-regrets-top-surgery-patients-report-100-satisfaction/
Unstoppable: This Doctor Has Been Investigated at Every Level of Government.
How Is He Still Practicing?
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Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics.
Today he still practices, despite a decade-long string of sanctions, fines and lawsuits.
#Health #HealthCare #Doctors #Hospitals #Patients #Insurance #Medicare #DOJ #Pennsylvania #News #McGuckin
A #Utah Therapist Built a Reputation for Helping Gay Latter-day Saints.
These Men Say He Sexually Abused Them.
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Several #patients complained to the #church or the state licensing board about inappropriate touching during #therapy sessions.
It was years before the #therapist gave up his license.
#PartThree of #Three
#WhatsWorse; having #Acquired #TheEntireStock of these #Widgets; the #Deployment was #LessThan #EntirelyScientific as we #SelfSelected our #OwnCohort of #Patients / #Users and #Excluded #EveryoneElse, thereby #Distorting #TheResults #VeryUnscientifically...
Then, #Apple #Changed its #OS and #Rendered the #Innovation and its #Deployment #EntirelyRedundant
#So... I was #Dead and #TheProject was #Dead and #IT was #QuiteExpensive
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Dialysis centre in Port Sudan overwhelmed since conflict broke out
Healthwatch England concludes that the continuing #NHS #strikes compounded an already severe issue of #patients waiting for treatment & its impact on wellbeing.
Indeed, while in the short-term they are right this may make things worse, lets not forget that political pressure (short of striking) has had little impact on the #Tories defunding of the NHS which is a direct cause of delays.
This is a battle for the health of our country.
#Gynecologist accused of sexually #abusing over 200 #patients is #sentenced to 20 years in prison
v AP
https://apnews.com/article/gynecologist-sex-abuse-5fdbe07e8367927bb720f7b84ce8a825
In just over an hour the #NHS #radiographers start their #strike.
I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.
The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!
Lay this at the #Tories door and...
Hospices in Four States to Receive Extra Scrutiny Over Concerns of #Fraud, Waste and Abuse
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Federal regulators have announced enhanced oversight of new #hospices in #Arizona, #California, #Nevada and #Texas, targeting providers highlighted by a ProPublica investigation.
#Hospice #HealthCare #Health #ElderCare #Elderly #Patients #News
Did you know that #hospital food caused tension between #patients & #doctors in the 18th c.?
Humorism, a theory on how the body works, had been prevalent since #AncientGreece, & determined what & how much was fed to the #sick.
Doctors wanted the #food to be light, but people felt rich food would give #strength to the #weak.
Conflicts arose in hospitals. #German #physician Hufeland stated that noncompliant patient diets “killed far more people than the illness itself”.
Blocked Artery in Your Leg? Here’s What You Should Know.
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A ProPublica investigation found that some #doctors overuse invasive #treatments for peripheral artery disease. So we talked to experts to learn what #vascular #patients should know when seeking care.
How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients?
No One Knows.
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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.
There’s nowhere a consumer or employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates.
Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
#Health #HealthCare #Insurance #Obamacare #AffordableCareAct #Hospitals #Doctors #Patients
This reminds me of the whole leg lengthening thing.
Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement
How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.
Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement
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How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.
As we head towards a(nother) #JuniorDoctors #strike... once again its worth emphasising that this is a strike that has been directly caused by the #Tories defunding of the #NHS, their callous attitude to the well-being of others & their strategy of driving (rich-enough) #patients into the arms of private #healthcare.
If #RishiSunak or #SteveBarclay actually wanted to reach a deal with the BMA/Junior Doctors they could, but they are choosing not to.
Organ Transplant Patients Can Die When Donors Aren't Screened for This Parasitic Disease
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Bob Naedele died after receiving a heart from a donor with Chagas disease.
His death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested. The group that governs U.S. transplant policies is considering mandatory screening of at-risk donors.
New, by @carolinechen
#Health #HealthCare #OrganDonation #OrganDonors #Transplant #Patients