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Organ Donation: Get the Facts

Organ Donation: Get the Facts. MYTH. If emergency room doctors know you’re an organ donor, they won’t work as hard to save you. FACT.

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Organ Donation: Get the Facts

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  1. Organ Donation: Get the Facts

  2. MYTH • If emergency room doctors know you’re an organ donor, they won’t work as hard to save you.

  3. FACT • If you are sick or injured and admitted to the hospital, the number one priority is to save your life. Organ donation can only be considered if you die and after your family has been consulted.

  4. MYTH • When you’re waiting for a transplant, your financial status or celebrity status is as important as your medical status.

  5. FACT • When you are on the transplant waiting list for a donor organ, what really counts is the severity of your illness, time spent waiting, blood type and other important medical information.

  6. Having "organ donor" noted on your driver's license or carrying a donor card is all you have to do to become a donor. MYTH

  7. FACT • While a signed donor card and a driver's license with an "organ donor" designation are legal documents, organ and tissue donation is always discussed with family members prior to the donation. To ensure that your family understands your wishes, it is important that you share your decision to donate LIFE.

  8. My family will be charged for donating my organs. MYTH

  9. FACT • There is no cost to the donor's family or estate for organ and tissue donation. Funeral costs remain the responsibility of the family.

  10. WHY DOES IT MATTER? • More than 80,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving transplants. • Every 13 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.

  11. An average of 17 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant. • In 2001, there were 6,081 deceased organ donors and 6,510 living organ donors resulting in 24,092 organ transplants.

  12. 46,532 cornea transplants were performed in 2001. • Nearly 900,000 tissue transplants were performed in 2001.

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