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November 18, 2004
“The Internet is not the place for honesty in getting a mate, getting a loan and probably getting a kidney.”
Arthur Caplan, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, on the increasing use of the Internet by organ donors and recipients to find each other (USA Today, October 26)
Originally published on November 18, 2004
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