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Organ Donations Increase When Motorcyclists Gather

Por: Forbes Tech November 29, 2022

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When I was in the residency phase of medical education, the trauma surgeons routinely referred to motorcycles as “donorcycles.” This was a bit of gallows humor emphasizing the perceived frequency with which motorcycle riders would get into fatal accidents, such that they became organ donors. A recent paper in JAMA Intern Med shows there is . Dr. David C. Cron and colleagues studied the frequency of organ donations during large motorcycle... + full article



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