“You and your family have done more for organ donation than anyone else I know.” This quote from Professor Tom Starzl, ‘the father of transplantation,’ about Reg Green’s family comes in an article (see below) in the magazine TransplantNation (Vol.7, #2) by Matthew Gamelin, which raises the question: in the history of medicine how many cases are there of the death of a child still affecting life-and-death decisions in hospitals all over the world thirty years later?
The Nicholas Effect 