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[Oblivion]

Double post, sorry

[Oblivion]

Hi everyone

I've searched the web to find more recent articles to work on and I've stumbled upon an article about organ trade.

If you want to sum it up, here's the link :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6240307.stm

I'll try to post my summary within a few days

Here's also a vocabulary list about organ donation.

I added at the end of the list a wikipedia link related to the issue

Have a nice week

Voca_organes.doc

[teacher]

Hi everyone

I've searched the web to find more recent articles to work on and I've stumbled upon an article about organ trade.

If you want to sum it up, here's the link :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6240307.stm

I'll try to post my summary within a few days

Here's also a vocabulary list about organ donation.

I added at the end of the list a wikipedia link related to the issue

Have a nice week

Great stuff Oblivion . Well done ;-)

Thanks

[Oblivion]

Thanks teacher

I kind of feel lonely here Where are you all?

Anyway, here is my summary :

"Experts warn against organ trade" is the title of an online article published at the beginning of January in the health column of the BBC website.

In this article, the journalist focuses on an illicit trade which has recently emerged on the internet : the organ trade.

In the first part of his article, he reveals the two main reasons which can account for the expansion of such a trade :

*the first reason is related to the shortage of organs available for transplantation in the UK.

*the second reason is a financial one : people who sell their organs on the internet can make great profit from it.

In the second part, the author alludes to the health hazard such a practice can represent for the donor.

The health conditions in which is performed the removal of the organs can be unsatisfactory and can lead to serious post-surgical complications, or even sometimes death.

Moreover, he also explains that such a trade is highly condemned by the British Transplantation Society and by British transplant surgeons, who also warned people not to indulge in that controversial practice.

Yet, it is important, I think, to consider the reasons why some people resort to that practice.

The donors can be people greedy for money but, as the BBC article tends to suggest, it mostly concerns people with financial difficulties. That practice can be a way for them to earn money and improve their daily life. Sometimes it even represents their last resort to save their family from poverty.

The organ shortfall concerns a majority of countries in the world and the scarcity of organ donors represents a worldwide medical crisis. Eventhough various campaigns to promote organ donation have been organized, the medical world still has to cope with the preconceived ideas of a part of the population and thus has to deal with people who refuse to consent to donation. I don't think that people can be blamed for this insofar as little information regarding the process of the removal has been provided to the population: the campaigns related to organ donation often only explain the reasons why it is important to consent to donation but fail to tackle people's misconceptions and fears.

Furthermore, the shortage of organs could be less important if people informed their relatives about their views on organ donation and told them if they agree or not to have their organs removed once they're dead. Even if it is easy to ask for an organ donation card, it is an initiative which is delayed or refused by people inasmuch as it is often seen as death-related. The fact that it will soon be possible to express one's consent on the Carte Vitale among other things might change that tendency.

However, the latest scientific breakthroughs could be the solution to that shortage, eventhough they raise ethical issues. We can allude to the cloning of organs for instance, or xenotransplantation which consists in transplanting into the human body organs from an animal, mostly from pigs.

We can also add that the medical progress regarding transplantation is more and more stunning and represents a new hope for all the people who suffer from amputations or from serious wounds. We can mention the recent face transplants or the arms transplants. Yet it can raise ethical issues too and the psychological impact of such transplants on the receiver can be disastrous. Eventually, we can also mention that technological progress in the USA which allowed a man and a woman to be transplanted with bionic arms.

To conclude, we can say that eventhough medical progress is significant and generates hopefulness, it remains important to open people's minds to the importance of organ donation and to keep in mind that, each year, too many people die because of the lack of organ donors on the registries.

[felicity]

No, Oblivion , you're not alone!

Here is my summary:

This text is an article written online on the BBC site, on Monday January 8th 2007. It is entitled "Experts warn against organ trade".

More and more people sell their organs online.

A surgeon warns against this trade which is, by the way, totally illegal in the UK.

Patients are ready to go very far to buy organs (for instance China and Pakistan).

There are dangers for donors:

- they can die after the operation

---> 1 in 3,000 chance after donating a kidney

---> 1 in 200 chance after donating a section of liver

People put sometimes their live in danger in order to earn a lot of money: by selling their cornea they can be blind.

- Moreover, a long hospitalisation is necessary after operations (20-25% of cases of liver donations)

Donating organs for money is unethical according to the British Transplantation Society.

The text ends with a donor 's explanation. It concerns Maqbool, 24, who explains why he advertised his organs online. He wants money to "buy a house to his family in Pakistan and to start a business". He stresses the fact that he wants £ 100,000 for his kidney, a section of his liver and his cornea.

Those donors are really desperate and want overall to keep their family out of poverty.

However we should keep in mind that donating organs is an act of generosity and should be totally free. Nowadays a lot of people still die because of a lack of organs. Everybody should tell their family their position, or write it on their driving licence, so that in case of fatal accident, doctors can act quickly if their organs fit with someone waiting a transplant.

[teacher]

Both your summaries, Oblivion and Felicity , are good .

keep up the good work.

Remember to practise your oral too!

One point to be clarified / corrected , Felicity : a donor explanation ?

[felicity]

Both your summaries, Oblivion and Felicity , are good .

keep up the good work.

Remember to practise your oral too!

One point to be clarified / corrected , Felicity : a donor explanation ?

Thank you Teacher! :

I've corrected my mistake...

I don't practice my oral

Oblivion, would you be interested in talking in english through msn?

[nunu]

Well, this is my first summary about organs article :

This article is about organ trade, it is extracted from website of BBC news, on January 8th.

The facts are related by the Sun newspaper : people who need money make advertising in order to sell theirs organs. They use the shortage of organs to raise a lot of money. A reporter of this newspaper met a man who hopes winning £100,000 selling corneas, liver and kidney.

But there is many dangers doing this :

- selling organs is illegal in U.K

- transplant organs could be dangerous for donors

Indeed Mr Keith Rigg, a consultant transplant surgeon, condemns the practice and warns of a definite risk of death for transplant donors : (1 death for 3000 person donating a kidney, 1 death for 200 persons donating a section of liver). He adds the risk of being blind as the result of donating cornea.

Moreover it is unethical underlines the president of the British Transplantation Society, John Forsythe; “We would completely condemn the sale of organs.” he said. They want to be sure, in case of living donation, that there is no money into it.

Furthermore, I've found an article about citizenship education on skynews => http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,301...3564612,00.html

Good night,

Manue

[teacher]

Well, this is my first summary about organs article :

This article is about organ trade, it is extracted from website of BBC news, on January 8th.

The facts are related by the Sun newspaper : people who need money make advertising in order to sell theirs organs. They use the shortage of organs to raise a lot of money. A reporter of this newspaper met a man who hopes winning £100,000 selling corneas, liver and kidney.

But there is many dangers doing this :

- selling organs is illegal in U.K

- transplant organs could be dangerous for donors

Indeed Mr Keith Rigg, a consultant transplant surgeon, condemns the practice and warns of a definite risk of death for transplant donors : (1 death for 3000 person donating a kidney, 1 death for 200 persons donating a section of liver). He adds the risk of being blind as the result of donating cornea.

Moreover it is unethical underlines the president of the British Transplantation Society, John Forsythe; “We would completely condemn the sale of organs.” he said. They want to be sure, in case of living donation, that there is no money into it.

Furthermore, I've found an article about citizenship education on skynews => http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,301...3564612,00.html

Good night,

Manue

A good effort ! Well done..

However your work is a little short . try to develop all the ideas .

All the best !

[florenceloq]

Hum... hum... Hello, I am a new member of your "english practice" groupe if you welcome me!

I would like to get some information regarding the way we should organize our summary on the D-Day... I mean, I think that we mustn't spend much time trying to develop on the paper, and just write the plan, don't you think?

But, talking something like 5 minutes on a 20-lines document.... I don't know... it's seems to me like ages...

So, it's is not simply a summary... Do we have to explain (if we are able to) some of the ideas or do we just focuss on what is on the paper?

Thanks for your answer...

Florence

[florenceloq]

Is there anybody out there?

[florenceloq]

I think everybody is working on french, math, history, geography and sciences... But maybe I am wrong... It is quite a long time I didn't go here and I am a bit shame

Sure, I can understand that... We have lots of things to do... But it can be seen like a little break, can't it? Okay, anyway, I will be patient... We've got time to go back to english...