An organ procurement transplant coordinator reflects:
Working with donor families made me believe in the kindness of our species again. Go work in an ER for 5 or 6 years and you may come away with a dim view of humanity. It's not fair, of course, you don't get to see people in their best light. But as a [transplant coordinator], I would walk away after a case, over and over again amazed at how people in the worst moments of their lives could find it in their hearts to help another, a stranger they would most likely never meet. It touches me still.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/donate-life-month/202930/
