1.   Besides, doctors and organ banks argue, they worked hard to get that liver in Houston, and they want it for a Houston patient.

2.   But once hope is lost and the patient has died, emergency room doctors can call the organ bank.

3.   But she concedes it can sometimes be frustrating for organ banks, too.

4.   Currently, organs are offered first to patients served by the same organ bank that collected the organ.

5.   Doctors and nurses often fail to identify potential donors or to alert the organ bank in time to recover the organs.

6.   For the last year, UMass has been allied with a smaller organ bank in Hartford.

7.   In essence, patients would grow their own supply of new tissues and organs instead of relying on the severely limited number held by organ donor banks and hospitals.

8.   On Christmas morning, when tests confirmed their daughter also was dead, the Stixroods asked the hospital to call the organ bank.

9.   Organ bank workers say that fear is common, especially among blacks, who sometimes distrust the medical system.

10.   She bequeathed them to an organ bank, only to have them rejected because she suffered tuberculosis.