Organ Donors Beware!!

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A new report has the claim that premature organ transplants have endangered donors.

"Several families have stated that surgeons attempted to initiate organ retrievals while patients were still alive or improving, as noted in a July 20 report from The New York Times."

The good news is you are not really dying, the bad news, we took your liver. OOPS!
 
This has been going on for years. They don't bother sedating those they are killing either. If you are not a donor and it's on your driver's license, oops. Didn't see that. Too late, we have the organs now.

When unborn baby parts got sold, the number of abortions skyrocketed. When transplants generate money, the common cold becomes a death sentence.
 
A new report has the claim that premature organ transplants have endangered donors.

"Several families have stated that surgeons attempted to initiate organ retrievals while patients were still alive or improving, as noted in a July 20 report from The New York Times."

The good news is you are not really dying, the bad news, we took your liver. OOPS!
WTF? Hey man how about waiting for a flatline or something Geez!!
 
A new report has the claim that premature organ transplants have endangered donors.

"Several families have stated that surgeons attempted to initiate organ retrievals while patients were still alive or improving, as noted in a July 20 report from The New York Times."

The good news is you are not really dying, the bad news, we took your liver. OOPS!
I've thought about this years ago after talking to a nurse that was a friend.
She suggested not have the donate on the drivers license, but to have my wife
offer up an organ in the event of my death. Problem solved.
 
I've thought about this years ago after talking to a nurse that was a friend.
She suggested not have the donate on the drivers license, but to have my wife
offer up an organ in the event of my death. Problem solved.
I don't think driver's licenses mean much. They didn't see it, they just assumed. I'm considering a tattoo on my arm. But, procurement agents are likely to ignore that too. I don't know how seriously they take the family either. Ohh we THOUGHT we heard yes,
 
As a donated organ recipient, something stinks with this story. I was notified that a donor liver had been made available at 4 pm on a Saturday afternoon. I traveled 4 1/2 hours to the hospital that night, arriving at about 1030 pm. I was told to prepare for the surgery and they would let me sleep until it was time. I was awakened the next morning and told that the surgery would be delayed, possible until noon because the organ had not been harvested at that time. At approximately 1030 am, I was taken to pre-op where I consulted with the doctors doing the procedure. I was then told it might be a little later as the organ had not arrived. At about 1245 I was told the organ has arrived and I would be taken into surgery. Because of the huge time delay, it was obvious, my donor was still alive but had no chance of recovery so they waited as long as possible to ensure I was ready and waiting when it arrived. I was later told one of my doctors had traveled to the site of the donor to verify the condition of the liver that was described to me as perfect. He traveled with the organ back to my hospital from out of state.

The irony of this story is that it mentions Kentucky and I know of only two hospitals in that state that do transplants, and I was in one of them.

My understanding is that most transplant patients are basically brain dead, but their other functions are normal due to a brain injury. The reason motorcycle riders who ride without helmets are called "organ donors". In almost every case, there is no hope of recovery.

My liver came from a 17-year-old boy named Joshua whose mother wanted part of him to live on.
 
I don't think driver's licenses mean much. They didn't see it, they just assumed. I'm considering a tattoo on my arm. But, procurement agents are likely to ignore that too. I don't know how seriously they take the family either. Ohh we THOUGHT we heard yes,

That is bullshit! There is paperwork that must be signed and witnessed.
 
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As a donated organ recipient, something stinks with this story. I was notified that a donor liver had been made available at 4 pm on a Saturday afternoon. I traveled 4 1/2 hours to the hospital that night, arriving at about 1030 pm. I was told to prepare for the surgery and they would let me sleep until it was time. I was awakened the next morning and told that the surgery would be delayed, possible until noon because the organ had not been harvested at that time. At approximately 1030 am, I was taken to pre-op where I consulted with the doctors doing the procedure. I was then told it might be a little later as the organ had not arrived. At about 1245 I was told the organ has arrived and I would be taken into surgery. Because of the huge time delay, it was obvious, my donor was still alive but had no chance of recovery so they waited as long as possible to ensure I was ready and waiting when it arrived. I was later told one of my doctors had traveled to the site of the donor to verify the condition of the liver that was described to me as perfect. He traveled with the organ back to my hospital from out of state.

The irony of this story is that it mentions Kentucky and I know of only two hospitals in that state that do transplants, and I was in one of them.

My understanding is that most transplant patients are basically brain dead, but their other functions are normal due to a brain injury. The reason motorcycle riders who ride without helmets are called "organ donors". In almost every case, there is no hope of recovery.
In other words you have no idea whether your donor was alive or dead. Just what you were told.
 
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