Trivial Facts Are Often The Best Hints

End-stage Liver Disease Refers To A Liver That's Failing, And A Very High Percentage Of Those Livers Are What We Call Cirrhotic, Or The Patient's Liver Has Become Cirrhotic, And What Cirrhosis Is, Is The Scarring Of The Liver Tissue.

When We Think About Living Donor Transplant, What We're Banking On Is The Ability Of The Liver To Regenerate Itself. Now, It's Not The Same Sort Of Regeneration We Think About With The Starfish Where We Cut Off The Arm And It Grows A New Arm. With The Liver, What Happens Is The Remaining Liver Gets Bigger, And Your Body Knows The Size Of The Liver That It Needs, And When It Recognizes That There Is Not Enough Liver, It Sends Nutrients And Signals To The Liver And Says "get Bigger."

If We Had Enough Cadaver Organs To Go Around We Wouldn't Do Living Donor Liver Transplants Because One Is We Don't Want To Put A Donor At Risk, But The Second Is That It's A More Difficult Surgery For The Recipient Because You're Getting A Piece Of A Liver Rather Than A Whole Liver. It Takes You Longer To Recover, And It Has More Complications Related To Where We Sew Together The Blood Vessels And The Bile Ducts.

The Affordable Care Act's Requirement That Certain Individuals Pay A Financial Penalty For Not Obtaining Health Insurance May Reasonably Be Characterized As A Tax.

I'm Not Sure That It's Right To View This As Excluding A Particular Group. When The Institution Of Marriage Developed Historically, People Didn't Get Around And Say, 'let's Have This Institution, But Let's Keep Out Homosexuals.' The Institution Developed To Serve Purposes That, By Their Nature, Didn't Include Homosexual Couples.