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Bob Aronson Patient Expert

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Blog: http://bobsnewheart.wordpress.com
I am an eternally gratefull heart transplant recipient . Because of this experience I have dedicated the rest of my life to increasing the supply of transplantable organs. We must put an end to the unnecessary misery and dying. I have a website, OrOrgan Transplant Patients, Families and Friends at... Full Bio
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Using the DMV to Inrease Organ Donation by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Reprinted from The New York Times | May 17, 2012, 12:35 pm Last summer I went to my local Department of Motor Vehicles to renew my dr ... Read on »
Yes, Brain Death Means You Are Really Dead! by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Are brain dead patients really dead?  That’s the question many people are asking because of stories circulated by irresponsible journalists, TV shows and movies who seek s ... Read on »
To Remember Me — A Donor’s Request by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine To Remember Me By Robert Noel Test (1926-1994) The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in ... Read on »
Can Cellular Memory Cause Transplant Recipients to Act Like Their Donors? by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have been writing these blogs for almost five years.  All of them are related to organ and tissue transplants and they range from how alcohol and drugs affect your organ ... Read on »
Alcohol and Drugs The Organ and Child Killers by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Alcoholism and drug abuse have haunted my family for years.  I’ve been in recovery for just about 30 years but I’m not alone in my family.  Anonymity disallows further dis ... Read on »
Cheney Got a New Heart — Ethicists Need One by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I am an average American male, human being.  I’m not a genius not gifted just a man of normal intelligence who likes to think and read and research and write about about w ... Read on »
Ethicist Needs Ethics Transplant by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In an op-ed piece on MSNBC Arthur Caplan a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist suggested that Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant because he was rich ... Read on »
Not Enough Organs — The Salamander Solution by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The organ shortage is real here at home and around the world.   People aren’t becoming organ and tissue donors in the numbers that are necessary to drastically cut or elim ... Read on »
Journalistic Terrorism by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I am a heart transplant recipient and a registered organ donor.  Today my new heart aches for the over 113,000 people on the national transplant list and their families be ... Read on »
Death by Journalism by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On behalf of the over 1600 members of Facebook’s Organ Transplant Initiative and my Blog, Bob’s Newheart on WordPress, I am lodging a very strong objection to Dick Terisi’ ... Read on »
“RockScar Love is where “Scars R Sexy” by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Amy Tippins spends every waking moment thinking about or doing something about organ donation, helping other people and spreading joy.   She is the creative genius behind ... Read on »
It’s Urgent! Become an Organ/Tissue Donor Now! by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Frank Sinatra is quoted as having said to a sick friend, “I hope you live to 125 and that mine is the last voice you hear.”  I feel that way about all of you…and me, of co ... Read on »
Post Transplant Depression — It’s Real and it’s Treatable by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Early in July of 1995 I collapsed in a parking garage, got up, dragged myself to the car and drove to an emergency room.  After a Battery of tests I was told I had dilated ... Read on »
Not Enough Transplantable Organs, Thousands Die…Options for Change by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There will come a time when organ/tissue/blood donors are no longer needed.  Advancements in mechanical devices, therapeutic cloning (duplication of organs not people) and ... Read on »
Help Your Caregiver — Get Your Own Glass of Water by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When you are very ill or recovering from a serious illness or surgery our caregivers (spouses, partners, friends, relatives) have a most difficult task.  Being a caregiver ... Read on »
Free, Professional Coaching if You’ll Give Talks On Organ Donation. by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you are a member of Organ Transplant Initiative (OTI) on Facebook or if you become one at any time (it’s ok to have multiple organ transplant group memberships) we invi ... Read on »
Too Few Organ Donors — Inadvertent Terrorism by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Each day 19 people die because there are not enough transplantable human organs to fill the need.  The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) which coordinates all transp ... Read on »
Donation to Transplantation — How it Works by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It is only fitting that on the eve of the fourth anniversary of my heart transplant that blog 100 on this site addresses  the donation/transplantation process.   My undyin ... Read on »
An Expert Explains Addiction as a Disease by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine While most experts and most medical associations recognize alcohol and drug addiction as a disease many of our readers disagree.  This blog and our Facebook group Organ ... Read on »
Give A Million Dollar Gift That Won’t Cost You a Penny by Bob Aronson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is a guest blog written by Ashley Tenczar Curran of Boston, Massachusetts.  Her husband Peter desperately needs a new liver.  He has been on the national transplant lis ... Read on »
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