Finding a Match is Not as Impossible as You Think
How Matching Markets Changed the Way We Coordinate Kidney Transplants
12 min readApr 25, 2022
There are over 90,000 patients in need of a kidney transplant, but only 20,000 transplants are performed a year. Due to the shortage, around 5,000 people die per year waiting. If you do the math, that means that ~78% of people are left in the dust and ~5.5% of…