Veerachai Sachdev
Mahidol University, Thailand
Biography
Veerachai Sachdev is a Family Physician specialised in Palliative Medicine and currently studying Master’s in Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Following completion of Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Adelaide, he went into General Practice training in rural parts of South Australia. He returned to Thailand and joined Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University as a part time Consultant involved in Post-graduate and Under-graduate teaching and Palliative Care service. Organ transplantation has shown to benefit patients who receive the organ by having a better quality of life, with renal transplant being the most common transplanted organ worldwide. Whilst most of the patients interviewed had little to no objection towards organ donation, however there is still a lack of understanding of the difference between cadaveric donors towards organ donor for transplantation. Buddhist teaching had also supports altruism and a minority of patient still belief in reincarnation and had they donated their organs and this may have implication in their next life.