Mickey Mantle Research Paper

I guess I am not shocked at the fact that Mickey Mantle received preferential treatment over people who were probably on a waiting list before him or who had never touched a drop of alcohol in their life and needed a liver for other reasons. He was probably not the first and definitely not the last. I remember another very famous alcoholic, Larry Hagman who played J.R. on Dallas. There was a lot of backlash, after Larry announced he had cancer and 2 months later he was undergoing surgery for a liver transplant, then question came up then whether or not a drug addict should receive a liver. Larry continued to drink after the transplant and eventually died from cancer. David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, & Nash is another celebrity that had controversey surrounding his lilver transplant. Crosby was an alcoholic and drug addict who was suffering from Hepatitis C. Phil Collins paid for the surgery and Crosby was pushed to the front of the line. Crosby went back to drinking and using drugs. …show more content…
What is also sad is the fact that these celebrities had the money, the contacts, and the support to get the help they needed, unlike less fortunate people. The word hero is often used loosely, I can't say that Mickey Mantle was not a hero to some, but I believe a real hero would be selfless and not selfish enough to allow himsef to be pushed ahead of the line. Congress has decided that the sickest of patients should receive livers first, the Instiutue of Medicine now has a scoring system to determine donor allocation, I assume to keep it fair and not to make