With regard to giving a patient a second heart transplant, it is TRUE that:
A. a national policy allowing second and third transplants to the same patient gets the most years of human life per organ transplanted.
B. it costs much less to give a patient a second heart transplant than to give the heart to a first-time recipient.
C. patients receiving second heart transplants live longer, on average, than first-time recipients.
D. patients are often given a second or third transplant because the transplant teams feel that to let a transplant recipient die is to abandon him or her.
E. providing a second transplant to the same patient is not an example of the Rule of Rescue.
Answer: D
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