http://gma.yahoo.com/video/news-26797925/dick-cheney-gets-heart-transplant-28720396.html
From: yahoo.com
This news article is about Dick Cheney getting a heart transplant. Everyone keeps on asking how old is told to have a heart transplant. He is currently seventy-one years old and just received a heart transplant. Other figures of the media keep on questioning how old can a person be in order to be to old for this transplant? I think this is an interesting article because this is a very important topic in today's society.
So the ethical question becomes "When are you too old to receive certain medical care?". If there were two people up for an organ transplant, a 70-year-old grandmother who is retired and living in an assisted living facility then a 25-year-old college student who is finishing up a degree to become a teacher, who should get the transplant? Always an ethical dilemma.
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