atorm comments on Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration - Less Wrong

17 Post author: atorm 29 January 2012 03:52AM

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Comment author: atorm 30 January 2012 05:00:55PM 0 points [-]

The National Marrow Donor Program website claims that local anesthesia can be used for marrow extractions. Your point has some validity, but I assume that the risk to a donor is much lower than the potential benefits to the person receiving the marrow, or the procedure wouldn't happen at all.