It's amazing to me how much less invasive some surgeries have become nowadays. I have some people close to me who I thought would require months of recovery get fixed up in mere weeks. It seems like one of those fields where advances have been happening quietly for decades.

> Spain is a world leader in organ transplants, according to figures from the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation, performing 5 per cent of organ donations worldwide in 2021.

This surprised me, too. I wondered what the factors were in Spain succeeding at this. This article gives some ideas: https://www.thelocal.es/20170915/how-spain-became-world-lead...

The major contributing factors seem to be a good donor coordination system, automatic organ donor registration, and a slightly more permissive regime for organ donor eligibility.