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City To Deploy Ambulances To Save Organs - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet

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City to Deploy Ambulances to Save Organs

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES

Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.

Your notes should include:

o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main

idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)

o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.

o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.

o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,

support) and choices affect the article.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.

Student _________________________________Class Period______________________

Notes on my thoughts,

City to Deploy Ambulances to Save Organs

reactions and questions as I

read:

Some 911 calls in Manhattan will now bring out two ambulances, one hurrying to

the scene and one lagging slightly behind.

The first one will try to save the patient’s life. The second one will try to save the

patient’s kidneys, in case the first ambulance fails.

After months of grappling with the ethical and legal implications, New York City

medical officials are beginning to test a system that they hope will one day greatly

increase the number of organs collected for transplant.

For five months starting Wednesday, the city will deploy a specially trained team

that will monitor 911 calls for people who may be in danger of dying, like those

having a heart attack. If efforts to resuscitate the patient fail, the team will quickly

move in and try to save the kidneys; normally, patients who die outside hospitals

cannot be donors because if too much time passes after the heart stops beating, the

organs are unusable.

City officials said the project would be the first of its kind in the United States,

though similar operations have been carried out in Europe. They said that they

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City To Deploy Ambulances To Save Organs - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet