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UPDATE ALERT: It was a hoax. The show has just finished over here in the land of the wooden shoe, and the woman giving away the kidney was an actress. The potential recipients were real kidney patients, though, although they were in on the joke.
Big Brother producers have caused more controversy by filming three critically ill patients competing for a kidney transplant.
Dutch company Endemol, which created Big Brother in 1999, is now filming The Big Donor Show for broadcaster BNN. It involves a terminally ill woman who will decide which of three young patients will get her kidney.
All three are critically ill and on dialysis as they wait for a donor organ to be made available, reports Algemeen Dagblad. Viewers will be able use text messaging to tell the 37-year-old woman, known as Lisa, which of the candidates to pick.
Several transplant patient organisations and politicians have objected to The Big Donor Show. Reiner Hofmann, spokesman for the Dutch Transplant Foundation, said: "This is a scandal, it is no better than selling organs. They are taking advantage of people in a desperate situation for entertainment." But BNN has defended its actions by saying the show is meant to highlight the acute shortage of donors in the Netherlands.
Now I'm no expert but I'd be very dubious about receiving a kidney from someone dying of cancer as Lisa reportedly is. Secondary tumours, or metastases, are usually what kills the patient; it is very rare to die from the original cancer. Secondaries can pop up anywhere and can lie dormant. this is way cancer sufferers can't donate blood, God only knows what could be in a whole organ.
But this program relies on people being desperate enough to do something rash and Lord knows Endemol love desperate people and I haven't even started on the moral dimension, or the compatibility issue, or the fact that donor recipients have their lives shortened by the anti-rejection drugs.
I'll leave that for you...
The surgeon got caught up in the excitement.
Big Brother producers have caused more controversy by filming three critically ill patients competing for a kidney transplant.
Dutch company Endemol, which created Big Brother in 1999, is now filming The Big Donor Show for broadcaster BNN. It involves a terminally ill woman who will decide which of three young patients will get her kidney.
All three are critically ill and on dialysis as they wait for a donor organ to be made available, reports Algemeen Dagblad. Viewers will be able use text messaging to tell the 37-year-old woman, known as Lisa, which of the candidates to pick.
Several transplant patient organisations and politicians have objected to The Big Donor Show. Reiner Hofmann, spokesman for the Dutch Transplant Foundation, said: "This is a scandal, it is no better than selling organs. They are taking advantage of people in a desperate situation for entertainment." But BNN has defended its actions by saying the show is meant to highlight the acute shortage of donors in the Netherlands.
Now I'm no expert but I'd be very dubious about receiving a kidney from someone dying of cancer as Lisa reportedly is. Secondary tumours, or metastases, are usually what kills the patient; it is very rare to die from the original cancer. Secondaries can pop up anywhere and can lie dormant. this is way cancer sufferers can't donate blood, God only knows what could be in a whole organ.
But this program relies on people being desperate enough to do something rash and Lord knows Endemol love desperate people and I haven't even started on the moral dimension, or the compatibility issue, or the fact that donor recipients have their lives shortened by the anti-rejection drugs.
I'll leave that for you...
The surgeon got caught up in the excitement.
The original was here.
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garethwi (01-06-2007 09:55:46)
It's seems a rather convoluted way of making a point.
They could have better used the money to pay some Thai bloke to drug some tourists and steal their kidneys, and then all three would have had their transplants.
They could have better used the money to pay some Thai bloke to drug some tourists and steal their kidneys, and then all three would have had their transplants.
revrobuk (01-06-2007 18:56:51)