[Physicians facing waiting and public questions]

Organ transplantations and harvestings implies health education and public confidence. To accept harvesting ideas and to be able to make a decision freely, every one must understand transplantation finality and the therapeutic and human means needed for its realisation. This article has been written to give answers to doctors who are confronted with questions from their patients, the patient's families and the general public concerning harvesting and transplantation. Doctors, who have a close and confident relationship with their patients, seem actually to be the best suited to transmit legal, medical, human and practical information.