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CHICAGO - The case of a doctor who donated a kidney to one of her patients is raising new ethical questions about the doctor-patient relationship and organ donation. For Dr. Susan Hou, donating a kidney was something she had thought about since her days in medical school where she had a friend with kidney disease. 'I can't bring about world peace, I can't eliminate world hunger, but I can get one person off dialysis,' said Hou, 56, medical director of the renal transplant program at Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Chicago. But medical ethicists, who say they know of no similar case in the United States, believe such a gift complicates the relationship between doctors and patients, and raises the issue of how a doctor decides which patient gets their life-saving gift. The person Hou chose to help was a 34-year-old suburban mother who was referred to Loyola's transplant program. Hou said other people haven't been a match for her kidney and something just clicked when she met Hermelinda Gutierrez, who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease. 'Just because you can't give to everybody doesn't seem a reason not to give it to anybody,' Hou said of her decision...
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