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During my time spent travel nursing, I worked at a hospital and I was floated onto a floor

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that I didn't normally go to, and they specialized in organ transplants.

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And within five minutes of me being on the floor that day and getting a report, I heard

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someone make a comment about, oh, haha, it's okay, half the floor is Israeli anyway.

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And I didn't really know what that meant, so I asked the girl that was about to give

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me a report, and she was like, oh, yeah, like, half our floor at any given moment are Israeli

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citizens that have come here for healthcare, which I didn't really think much of.

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I was like, oh, okay, they're flying in, okay.

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It wasn't until I, like, sat down with one of my Israeli patients and she talked me through

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the whole thing that I realized what was going on.

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Israeli citizens are given the option.

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If there's a U.S. hospital that has a procedure that is not offered in Israel, or if there's

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a U.S. hospital that is better at a procedure than a hospital in Israel, or if the Israeli

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organ donation centers don't have a good match for them, they come to the U.S. and receive

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our organs from our citizens.

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I don't know how it's happening, but I have a very high suspicion that some of these Israeli

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citizens are being fast-tracked on the wait list for U.S. organs, in specific because one

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of the patients I was taking care of had received a double heart and lung transplant, and they

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had only been in the country for less than a week, how do you get matched and then become

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a recipient of such an important set of organs after waiting only a week?

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More than that, for any Israeli citizen that is brought here, their flight to the U.S. is

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covered, their stay, well, in the United States, their stay in the hospital, which, mind you,

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for the average person receiving an organ transplant or a high-level procedure where

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they will need to be hospitalized for up to two weeks afterwards, that's like seven