Authors: Lee Hsiao Lu.
A man living in Taiwan has had diabetes for 15 years. It led to chronic renal failure which required kidney dialysis. Dialysis had deeply affected his quality of life including his sex life, therefore causing much anguish and he constantly desired to have a kidney transplant. Recently, his wife passed away, leaving him with his four children. Only the blood types of two sons matched his for a kidney transplant, type O and A, but they were reluctant to go through with the surgery. His daughter didn’t want have a kidney transplant with her father because she was afraid of accidents during surgery. Still, this patient wanted to change his current quality of life and end dialysis treatment, to which his doctors approved. The man eventually found a woman willing to do a kidney transplant for him and even have a false marriage of a year. Did the couple get married with love as its basis, or was it just supply and demand to exchange a kidney for wealth? In order to receive payment for her kidney. This manner of kidney transplant is legal and also abides by transplant criteria, the patient's values exceed social justice in the scope of medical ethics, Is this situation comply with the range of medical ethics? Does transplantation of the law defect? It be worth discussing.
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