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The system, depicted in the Oscar-winning movie "All About My Mother" by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, identifies potential donors by closely monitoring emergency wards. When they learn of a death, the coordinators tactfully talk to the grieving families to get permission to harvest organs and help save the lives of others.
This is wrong the movie did not depict this system and has nothing to do with transpant coordinators. Your news affiliate AFP should be more careful in future.
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Replied on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:00 AM
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The reference to the "system" for harvesting organs and saving lives in All About My Mother is correct. In fact the movie opens with the hospital colleagues of the mother (a nurse), talking her into donating her teenage son's heart following the tragic road accident. Sure, the movie moves on to AIDS, transgender and heavier stuff on living, loving and dying that Almodovar generally revels in. The organ donation scene takes off from a scene in his earlier film The Flower of My Secret. (That movie wasn't about organ donation either)
Maybe you should see All About My Mother once again to refresh your memory. And hey, get your kids to sleep and have a hanky at hand to watch the movie on DVD. It's really weepy in case you've forgotten. Better still, a bath towel!
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Replied on Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:00 AM
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