Ohio's Plan for Organ Transplantation

To the Editor: Society continues its struggle to evaluate the role of heroic treatments such as heart and liver transplantation. All too often, we neglect the issues of fairness in patient selection and financial access. As a result, patients and their families have often used the media to create public or political pressure. The state of Ohio has developed a program to provide organ transplantation on the basis of medical need, the probability of a medical benefit, and donor-organ compatibility, rather than the ability to pay or generate a newspaper headline. At Governor Richard F. Celeste's urging, I initiated discussions . . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.