Most people waiting for a kidney assume the biology is the obstacle.
Alvin Roth saw a different problem entirely. The Nobel Prize-winning economist didn’t change medicine. He changed the system around it, using economic theory to connect incompatible donors and recipients in chains of up to 70 people. Because of that idea, roughly a thousand people a year in the United States alone receive a kidney they otherwise never would have gotten. Some of them would still be on kidney dialysis. Others would be gone.
How an economist helped thousands get a new kidney ~ bbc.com (Dec 16, 2019)
~ Alvin E. Roth – Nobel 2012 | Kidney Exchange Market Design: Can economics save lives?
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It is fascinating… and “endearing” – to think of ALL the “non-medical” TEAM PLAYERS who already are (or could be) making a difference !! Thank you, whoever you are – for caring about the rest of us !! LM