Donor Diaries
Donor Diaries is a podcast about the beauty and messiness of living organ donation. Get ready for some amazing stories about what happens when people decide to share their organs with other people, when people chose to share life. The sharing of kidneys and other organs is an incredibly fascinating topic that teaches a lot about kindness, love, and life! There are over 100,000 people on the kidney transplant waitlist today, and sadly about 13 people die each day waiting for a kidney that they never receive. One in three Americans are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease and one in nine already have kidney disease. Most don’t even know it. Donor Diaries shares unfiltered stories of kidney donation through the voices of living donors and straight talk from transplant experts who are committed to bringing the conversation of living organ donation to the forefront of society, so patients no longer have to die or suffer while waiting for a transplant.
Donor Diaries
Who Shall Live? | EP 2
Who shall live?
Meet senior transplant coordinator Doug Penrod. Each of our podcasts feature either a living donor, or a transplant expert. Doug is both an expert and a living donor which makes him the first Donor Diaries Double Dipper! Join Doug and Laurie as they discuss the controversial aspects of dialysis in America and what is being done to ensure that dialysis patients understand their option to get a kidney transplant. Find out what a “God Committee” is and learn how they determined who would live or die in the early years of dialysis machines. Find out what compelled Doug to become a living kidney donor himself after over 20 years of working with organ donors and recipients.
Episode Links
Donor Diaries
Organ Donor Registry (deceased donation)
National Kidney Donor Organization (NKDO) (living donation)
Who Shall Live? (God Committees)
Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
