A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times reported today.
If not a hoax, it is more supporting evidence that teenage brains are not fully developed.
The story is much juicier because the hospital where the kidney was removed was not licensed for organ transplants, there was a broker who cannot be found, and "the department that did the surgery had been contracted to a Fujian businessman." I smell a TV special investigative report and a related CSI story on TV. Expect this story to also surface with a vengeance when supporters of market forces in medicine point out how much more efficiently business deals with illness.
Some 45 years ago there would be reports of young men killing themselves after being forced to cut their hair. (It was the season of shaggy mops. Short hair in America meant the military or support for the war in Vietnam.) So don't file this story under "Those Wacky Chinese Teenagers."
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