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A 16-Year-Old Boy Brought to the Emergency Room with a Gunshot

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A 16-year-old boy brought to the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the head is declared brain dead. His driver's license identifies him as an organ donor, but the hospital staff is unable to locate his family for permission to take his organs. Another client in the same hospital will die within 24 hours without a heart transplant. The tissues of both clients match sufficiently for a transplant. What is the ethical course of action in this case?


A) Take the donor's organs per permission of his driver's license.
B) The organs cannot be taken without the family's permission because the client is underage.
C) Continue to attempt to locate the client's family while preparing for the transplant.
D) Only remove organs that will not kill the client.

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