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Sally Satel, M.D.

Author of PC, M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

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  • Articles
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse
  • Bioethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Organ Policy
  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • Amicus Briefs
  • Appearances
  • Books
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Organ Policy

We Have to Make Organ Donors Whole

Washington Monthly, January 17, 2023

America Should Allow Death Row Organ Donation

Persuasion, August 1, 2022

Give Donors a Tax Credit: Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Donation

Sally Satel and Alan D. Viard, Regulation, Summer 2022

We Need Both High- and Low-Tech Approaches to the Shortage of Organs for Transplantation

By Henry I. Miller & Sally Satel, RealClearHealth, June 16, 2022

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine (Unabridged Version)

Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2022

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine

Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2022

Should human kidneys be bought and sold?

BBC Ideas, January 13, 2022
Should human kidneys be bought and sold?

Comment on HRSA organ donor reimbursement proposal

Sally Satel and Alan D. Viard, American Enterprise Institute, April 27, 2020

How to provide better incentives to organ donors

Sally Satel and Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2018

EconTalk Podcast: Sally Satel on Organ Donation

Library of Economics and Liberty, July 24, 2017

What if you could legally sell your kidney?

June 15, 2017
What if you could legally sell your kidney?

The Kindest (Tax) Cut: A Federal Tax Credit for Organ Donations

Sally Satel and Alan D. Viard, Tax Notes, June 12, 2017

You’ve Heard Of Trump Steaks, Now Trump Kidneys

Forbes, November 15, 2016

Vouchers and incentives can increase kidney donations and save lives

Stat News, September 13, 2016

A College Tuition Payment for Your Spare Kidney?

Slate, September 13, 2016

The Dearth of Donors: In-kind compensation for organs would save lives

National Review, June 27, 2016

Hope for Organ Markets?

May 26, 2016
Hope for Organ Markets?

Generosity won’t fix our shortage of organs for transplants

Washington Post, December 28, 2015

Time to test incentives to increase organ donation

Sally Satel and David C. Cronin II, JAMA Internal Medicine, June 1, 2015

The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors

Pacific Standard, March 12, 2015

How To Convince People To Solve The Organ Shortage

Forbes, January 12, 2015

An organ shortage kills 30 Americans every day. Is it time to pay donors?

Washington Post, October 20, 2014

Test Incentives for Organ Donations — There’s No Reason Not To

New York Times, August 21, 2014

State Organ-Donation Incentives Under the National Organ Transplant Act

Sally Satel, Joshua C. Morrison, and Rick K. Jones, Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke Law, Volume 77, Number 3 (2014)

Why People Don’t Donate Their Kidneys

New York Times, May 4, 2014

Don’t ban compensation for bone-marrow donors

regulations.gov, December 2, 2013

Why It’s OK to Pay Bone-Marrow Donors

Bloomberg, December 1, 2013

How to Fix the Organ Transplant Shortage

Slate, June 19, 2013

Letting a child die for a voluntary ideal: Compensate organ donors so patients like Sarah Murnaghan can live.

USA Today, June 6, 2013

Organ Donors Behind Bars

Room for Debate, New York Times, April 25, 2013

A Kidney for a Kidney

Slate, April 15, 2013

An Organ ‘Donor’ Revolution: It’s now legal to compensate bone-marrow donors.

Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2012

Are You Dead Yet?

The New Republic, May 15, 2012

Facebook’s Organ Donation Success Needs Follow-Up

Bloomberg, May 7, 2012

A Lifesaving Legal Ruling on Organ Donation: Allowing payment for some bone-marrow transplants is a small but profound first victory.

The Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2011

The Market for Kidneys, Livers and Lungs

Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2011

International Guidelines for Organ Incentives

American Journal of Transplantation, October 21, 2011

Yuan a Kidney? China’s proposals to pay organ donors flout the status quo. That’s a good thing.

Slate, June 13, 2011

Compensating Organ Donors

March 8, 2011
Compensating Organ Donors

A Modest Proposal on Kidney Donation

Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2011

Cutting Human Lives: What should we make of Arizona’s new law for rationing organ transplants?

Slate, December 6, 2010

Is it ever right to buy or sell human organs?

New Internationalist Magazine, October 2010

Responses to Question from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Nuffield Council on Bioethics, July 7, 2010

Altruism + incentive = more organ donations

The Times, June 13, 2010

The Cost of an Altruism-Only Policy

New York Times Room for Debate, May 2, 2010

More kidney donors are needed to meet a rising demand

Sally Satel and Mark J. Perry, Washington Post, March 7, 2010

Kidney Mitzvah: Israel’s remarkable new steps to solve its organ shortage.

Slate, January 27, 2010

A ‘Gift of Life’ With Money Attached

New York Times, December 21, 2009

The Case for Paying Organ Donors: There is no indignity in financial gain.

Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2009

About That New Jersey Organ Scandal

Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2009

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Appearances

  • Discussing mental health and Uvalde Discussing mental health and Uvalde
  • Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization? Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?
  • Should human kidneys be bought and sold? Should human kidneys be bought and sold?
  • Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger
  • The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis
  • Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic? Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic?
  • TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions
  • The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media
  • A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment
  • A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics
  • Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it? Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it?
  • Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic
  • Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan
  • Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting? Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?
  • Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do? Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do?
  • Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel
  • Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis
  • What if you could legally sell your kidney? What if you could legally sell your kidney?
  • Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy
  • Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’ Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
  • Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
  • Hope for Organ Markets? Hope for Organ Markets?
  • The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel
  • Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do? Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
  • Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
  • After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain” After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
  • Compensating Organ Donors Compensating Organ Donors
  • When Altruism Isn’t Enough When Altruism Isn’t Enough
  • Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D. Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D.
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