TBT: February Man of the Month: Dan Miller

April is National Donate Life Month (NDLM) an entire month of local, regional and national activities dedicated to help encourage Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to celebrate those that have saved lives through the gift of donation. In honor of NDLM for today’s TBT post we couldn’t think of a more appropriate post than the one highlighting the selflessness of our February Man of the Month.

On the topic of organ donation, Dan Miller had a consistent message: “Do the research.”
For Dan, a healthy, 20-year-old junior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., this meant seeking out the evidence needed to justify the life-changing decision of whether to donate a kidney to someone he’d never met.
Dan talked to his sister, Lauren Miller, who had successfully undergone the same procedure in December 2014 and had already overcome the judgement of skeptics, challenging her decision.
Dan read the statistics about how each year nearly 5,000 people die after being left on an 100,000-plus long waiting list for a kidney transplant. He visited specialists to determine if he had the physical, emotional and mental capacity to withstand the risks of living with one kidney.
For Dan, our February Disruptive Women Man of the Month, the research he did overwhelmingly pointed in one direction: saving another person’s life. And in December, days before Christmas, he did just that.
“It was really just the shock of finding out the really serious ...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: TBT Source Type: blogs