[DoreenMichele]

Organ transplants are "ooh, shiny" headline grabbing medicine. Better healthcare to try to keep your original equipment is boring and gets dismissed as "just lucky." It's hard to prove a connection between x, y z and not needing a transplant.

Any criticism or critique of this paradigm gets hated on without anyone really listening or wondering what might motivate someone to be not crazy about our "we are borg" trends in medical care.

[majormajor]

Everyone I've ever talked to dealing with conditions that often end in transplant knows and shares that they're big-deal, serious-business, forever-life-altering treatments that are ultimate last resorts. But for some things we simply don't have any alternatives.

And for some of those - for instance one of the super-obvious ones is alchoholism-induced cirrhosis - "don't drink so much that you kill your liver" is VERY discussed, not just considered "lucky." You might even get yourself disqualified from a transplant if you can't get it under control. Everyone would MUCH rather you not need it.

Where are you seeing "get a transplant" pushed as a shiny panacea? They aren't even new anymore... lots of newer-shinies out there.

[unwise-exe]

>>> Any criticism or critique of this paradigm gets hated on without anyone really listening

I'm having a hard time following this. Could you perhaps reference some examples to illustrate what you mean here?

[kelnos]

Sure, reducing the conditions that lead people to need transplants is a great idea, and should be done more. But I don't see how that's relevant to this discussion.