I FOUND THIS in my LOCAL!!!
So WHY am I even READING or BUYING a BOSTON GLOBE, hanh?
"Man says he sold kidney in U.S. for $20k; New York recipient says he was near death when Israeli man answered ad" by Carla K. Johnson and Adam Goldman, Associated Press | Aug. 18, 2009
NEW YORK - In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For that, he says he was paid $20,000, which appeared in a brown envelope on his hospital bed after the operation.
That payoff would be illegal.
But the kidney donor, 39-year-old Nick Rosen of Tel Aviv, says that doesn't matter. "I smoke pot. That's also against the law."
Rosen believes he did a good deed and that organ donors like him should be compensated. Much of his story can be confirmed, and the case gives new resonance to claims that a black market for kidneys has thrived even in the United States....
Yup, RUN BY YOU-KNOW WHO!!!!!!!
His tale of organ trafficking might be incredible if.... the issue of black market organs had not burst into public view with the recent arrest of a New Yorker accused of brokering a kidney sale....
For years, kidneys have been available on a thriving international black market, but evidence of organ trafficking in the United States is harder to find. However, doctors and others in the transplant field have long suspected an illegal organ market exists here.
Nick Rosen's story — which he says began when he answered a "Kidney Donor Wanted" ad in an Israeli newspaper....
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Nick Rosen's disjointed, fuzzy video of his transplant experience has been viewable online for several months, if you know where to look.
And it is NOT in the BOSTON GLOBE, let me tell you!!!
The Associated Press tracked him down through Facebook, the social networking site....
Rosen was nearing his 35th birthday. So when he saw an ad in an Israeli newspaper seeking a kidney donor, it seemed an appropriate gesture. "I wanted to make a difference." He says he called a phone number and was told he would be paid the equivalent of $20,000 for his kidney. A man who called himself Moti, "an ugly guy" whom Rosen believed to be in charge of brokering the sale, sent him for medical tests in Israel....
The transplant was done at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and some of its doctors appear on Rosen's video. One doctor says, "There are a lot of very important kind of life-or-death issues that we need to discuss." The doctor pauses. "And honestly I don't think we can have a really ..."
The doctor gestures with his hand until Rosen says, "You want me to put this down?" The camera goes off. Mount Sinai officials refuse to discuss the case and details of their kidney donor screening process. Dr. Daniel Herron, a surgeon who appears to be on Rosen's video, said he was aware of the video but that he could not talk without checking with the Mount Sinai press office. The next day, the press office said Herron was away and not available for an interview....
Smell a COVER UP or what?
And notice how superficial this report is compared with some of the blog investigations?
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Israeli officials and spokespersons have been railing against a leading Swedish newspaper for publishing a report claiming that the Israeli occupation army murders Palestinians in order to use their organs for transplants for Jewish patients.
Oh, that couldn't happen; I'd have read about it in the Globe if it had.
Wouldn't they be hailing the Palestinians as heroes like the good Jew Nick Rosen?
