The kidney transplant case in a well-known hospital has grabbed all the headlines, and the media is now having a field day at the doctor's expense. If you are getting a sense of deja vu reading these reports, where the kidney doctors are painted as being greedy villains out to exploit poor donors, this is because we've heard this same story before 10 years ago. In order to understand why this happens repeatedly, we need to look at some background.
In order to prevent racketeering in kidney donation, the government passed a law. This was done with the best of intentions, but it's not well drafted, because it is crafted by people sitting in ivory towers, who have no connection with ground reality, and don't have any understanding about the living hell which the patient with kidney failure goes through. Rather than try to help doctors to do many more transplants in order to replicate…
