Abstract:
Most people working in health care do not objecta on moral grounds to the brain criteria for death and the donation and transplantation of organs from such cadavers, and approximately two-thirds of relatives are willing to consent to organ donation. Yet assisting in organ-procurement surgery remains unpopular with operating-room nurses, ranking alongside induced abortion in unpopularity. Further, although nurses are in general critical of the medical profession, the surgeons who undertake organ procurement seem to be the objects of an unusual amount of criticism from nurses, often being described as ‘fast’, ‘aggressive’, ‘rude’, ‘insensitive’ and ‘arrogant’.
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