Who is my patient after my patient dies? Issues in organ procurement.
Organ donation, procurement, and transplantation have become commonplace events. When a person is dying, the attending physician's "patients" include not only the grieving family but also the many unknown persons awaiting an organ for transplantation. A regional transplant program can be immensely helpful to the attending physician, the hospital staff, and the family of the dying patient.
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