Thanatology: Determination of Death

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The Harvard group and the Sydney assembly agreed that it is best to have at least two physicians share the responsibility of determining death. And if there is any prospect of a transplant, those physicians must not be members of the transplant team. On the need for this division of authority, Sir Leonard Mallen said: "Doctors must never be in a position where it could be said that a donor was murdered to obtain an organ for a transplant."

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