Sally Satel is a former VA psychiatrist who now works for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-thank.

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Full disclosure: Satel is both a source and friend, and a writer I have edited and published in Forbes.

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Promptly take up a suggestion of Dr. Sally Satel and others to create incentives for people to become donors.

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Ms. SALLY SATEL (American Enterprise Institute): There are people who do need it and thank goodness it's available for them.

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Satel herself went through a harrowing 18-month wait for a donor organ after she was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2004.

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Satel observed in a recent Wall Street Journal piece that there are a variety of ways in which this can be done.

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"Al's work on kidney matching is one of the few great modern advances in transplant policy, " says the American Enterprise Institute's Sally Satel.

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Kidney transplant recipient Sally Satel has noted that burial and cremation expenses can be provided when a body is donated to science -- as long as it isn't used to save the life of a current patient.

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