Editor's Note: This post originally ran on the Ketchum Blog and can be found here.
Times They Are a-Changin’! These immortal words written 
and performed
by Bob Dylan in 1964 continue to echo through our world today. Perhaps
it is nowhere more present than in the world of social media in the
manner of altering the way we share our personal choices, particularly
when it comes to topics of health.
It is unlikely in 1968 when The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)
provided the legal standing for organ transplantation, that people might
have imagined there would someday be a national computer registry of
donated organs, but that is exactly what happened in 1984 through the
National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA). Eventually, states began to offer
an individual the option to list “organ donor” as a status on their
driver’s license; a private and personal choice declaring that if
something were to happen to that person, their organs could be
transplanted if determined usable. Read full post »
