Bone Marrow Donors Case Study

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Bone Marrow Donors

The need for more bone marrow donors is increasing. Effie Petersdorf and Jeff Rowes have expressed their concerns about the need for more bone marrow donors. Petersdorf and Rowes have both taken in consideration the most controversial proposal about bone marrow transplant, whether to give or not to give an extra amount of money to bone marrow donors besides their out of pocket costs. Offering incentives in the bone marrow transplant program create issues within the program itself; therefore, bone marrow donors should not be compensated.

Bone marrow is the term used to indicate immature blood cells. Compensating donors imply to give a person something extra, (financially), besides the reimbursement of costs incurred during the procedure to transplant bone marrow. Petersdorf and Rowes agree about the insufficient number of bone marrow donors. The main goal is to find a solution that is safe for …show more content…
Petersdorf in, "Should bone marrow donors be compensated?: Con.", states, "The WMDA [World Marrow Donor Association] has consistently maintained a policy against compensating donors because such payments raise both safety and ethical concerns". Because Effie Petersdorf was a president for the World Marrow Donor Program, he is considered an expert in the aspects pertaining to the bone marrow transplant's process.

There are several situations where the safety of the patients, the donors, the doctors and the nurses can be compromised because the reason for proceeding with the bone marrow donation is financially driven.

1.In the current program donors are asked to provide a complete health history to analyze and avoid passing to the patient any possible transmissible diseases. (Petersdorf, April 2011) By offering monetary incentives, many donors will not be 100% truthful in regards to their health because they are in financial trouble and they need the extra

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