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Sister trope to [[Healthcare Motivation]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'Live And Let Die' is basically this trope, with the variant that it was the doctor's wife needing the liver. He orchestrates a medical helecoptor hijacking and kills several people in the process. Mac is naturally not amused, especially recalling his own pain and loss and talks on the fact that the guy will likely be in prison while his wife dies.
* ''[[Greys Anatomy|Grey's Anatomy]]'', many times. The most noteworthy is Denny Dukett, who fell in love with Izzy and was about to get a donor heart when the donor died, meaning that there was only one heart left at that hospital, and it was going to go to another person. Izzy {{spoiler|cut his LVAD wire, purposefully worsening his health to bump him up the list.}} He survived and got the transplant, but {{spoiler|died later of a stroke.}}
* [[Earth: Final Conflict]]: Liam Kincaid anonymously donates blood to Ronald Sandoval. Notable because the doctor said it ''had'' to be from a first-degree relative (parent or child) to work. Furthermore, Sandoval considers Liam his enemy while Liam's feelings for his human father are a little more complicated.
* [[House (TV)|House]]. Oh so many times. There's an episode where a father kills himself to give one of his organs to his son, another where a patient has to find a kidney on the black market, and another where they have a brain-dead donor who'd be perfect for a man with an ailing heart -- they just have to figure out what was wrong with her so that the donor board will sign off on it. Then there was the time they had a donated pair of lungs that were going to be implanted but couldn't be because they had some kind of illness, so House was called in to cure them when they were nothing more than a pair of lungs in a box.
* There's an episode of ''[[Law and Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' where the villain is giving away his organs to people he feels deserve it, and killing them (in such a way that the organ can be transplanted into someone else) if they stop whatever project or behavior he feels made them deserve it. In the end {{spoiler|they get him to confess in exchange for allowing him to continue donating his organs while in prison}}.
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* On ''[[Psych]]'', someone kills a number of people on the regional liver transplant list, in an apparent attempt to move their own name to the top.
** {{spoiler|Also a [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]], as the woman in need of the transplant has an identical twin, who should've been able to voluntarily donate a liver lobe to her sister without recourse to the donor list.}}
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* On ''[[Leverage (TV)|Leverage]]'', The Cross My Heart Job features a rich businessman who attempted to steal a heart that was intended to be transplanted for a teenage boy. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the boy, [[Berserk Button|Nate and his team find out about this]] and are able to recover the heart. It is interesting due to the limited amount of time that the team has to work with.
* ''[[Forever Knight]]'' did this in season 3. Nick and co are investigating a black market organ ring. Natalie is scheduled for a knee surgery, and has the misfortune to have as her doctor who's connected to it somehow and who's the mother of a girl who needs a heart transplant. She nearly ends up an unwilling donor, but Nick gets there just in time.
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