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The core of the Hippocratic tradition of professional medical ethics, which benefited a remarkable degree of continuity through the centuries, is the dictum of “first do not harm”. On the basis of living organ donation, which requires healthy donors to be harmed by surgery and the loss of an organ, seems morally contestable. The New York-Presbyterian transplant institute is one of many health care institutions that deliver the highest standard of coordinated and comprehensive care to save lives and “prolong the quality of life”. The institute’s kidney program offers high technology therapies that can lengthen and significantly improve the quality of life for transplant patients. In addition, organ transplantation has been recognized as one of the most fascinating medical advances of the century as it provides a way of giving “the gift of life” to those who are terminally ill or have failure of vital organs.
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