Authored by: Isabella Fiutak Art by: Kenneth Li Organ transplantation is a marvel of modern medicine, offering patients a second chance at life. To consider it miraculous, however, is to underappreciate the complexities of the United States organ transplant system— known as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, or OPTN. Following the passage of the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, the OPTN was established as a public-private partnership under the authority of the United...