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Organ donations
subject of study
CLEVELAND (AP) — When it
comes to talking to families about or
gan donation, nurses are better than
doctors, timing is critical, and health
care workers’ attitude makes a huge
difference, new research finds.
The conclusions are drawn from
the largest and most comprehen
sive look at the sons and daughters,
mothers and fathers, husbands and
wives who must decide, in a mo
ment of utter grief, whether they
will donate their loved one’s organs
to patients awaiting transplants.
About half of families say yes,
and half say no. Researchers in
Cleveland and in Pittsburgh set out
to find what makes the difference.
“It has the same psychology of
sales. Laura A. Siminoff of Case
Western Reserve University's med
ical school said. “If someone is neg
ative and they say, ‘You don’t really
want to do it, do you?’ they’re prob
ably going to look at you and say,
‘Absolutely not.’” She conducted the
study with Dr. Robert Arnold of the
University of Pittsburgh.
Siminoff and Arnold will present
their results today to about 55 trans
plant coordinators, doctors, nurses,
bioethists, donor families and other
experts from around the country. Or
ganizers hope the group will devel
op a model for approaching families
that can be tested in a scientifically
rigorous national study.
Last year, organ donation in
creased for the first time in years, edg
ing up to 5,500 donors. Still. 4,300
people died while awaiting a trans
plant, and more than 66,000 patients
now are waiting for a donor organ.
This week's conference is one of
several efforts to boost donation
amid a bitter fight in Washington
over how to allocate donated organs.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The theory that Aaron
McKinney pummeled Matthew Shepard because he
made a sexual advance goes on trial this week as
lawyers try to prove McKinney suffered from a dimin
ished capacity at the time of the beating.
McKinney is on trial for robbery, kidnapping and
murder in the death of the gay college student. His
lawyers are seeking conviction on a lesser offense, like
manslaughter, to avoid a possible death sentence.
They have two approaches, both of which are
aimed at proving McKinney suffered from a mental
disease or defect that prevented him from knowingly
or purposefully committing murder — the “dimin
ished capacity” defense.
When McKinney’s defense gets into full swing today,
the lawyers plan to offer testimony his mental capacity
was diminished by drugs and alcohol, an approach al
lowed under Wyoming law. But they have combined that
approach with the theory that a person with latent ho
mosexual tendencies will have an uncontrollable, vio
lent reaction when propositioned by a homosexual.
Some have called this the “gay panic” defense.
McKinney’s lawyers have contended he lost con
trol during a drunken, drug-induced rage because a
sexual advance by Shepard triggered memories of a
childhood homosexual assault.
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