Posted on 04/01/2015 8:27:04 AM PDT by dennisw
Heart recipient, 17, dies in high-speed police chase crash two years after he was nearly denied transplant because of his bad behavior
Anthony Stokes died on Tuesday after he crashed a stolen car into a pole while fleeing from the scene of an attempted burglary in Roswell, Georgia He had fired at an elderly woman after breaking into her home Less than two years ago, he was given a life-saving heart transplant He was initially denied the surgery because doctors said he had previously failed to take medication so would be 'non-compliant' with the treatment But they changed their minds following pressure from civil rights groups and the boy's family, who said he had been stereotyped as a troubled teen After the transplant, he said he was grateful for a second chance at life
A teenager who received a life-saving heart transplant two years ago after initially being denied because of his bad behavior has died following a high-speed car chase with police.
Anthony Stokes, 17, died on Tuesday afternoon after he crashed a stolen Honda into a pole as he fled the scene of an attempted burglary at an elderly woman's home in Roswell, Georgia.
His death comes less than two years after he was given a second chance at life following a heart transplant at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
The boy, from Decatur, suffered from a dilated cardiomyopathy so his heart was unable to pump enough blood. The condition can lead to irregular heartbeats, blood clots or heart failure.
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I remember the original outcry about it and subsequent media firestorm over the refusal to transplant. Obviously the hospital was being racist.
This useless pos got the heart transplant due to pressure from the Al Sharptons of the world and probably paid NOTHING for it. Easy come easy go.
Well that was a waste.
Not to mention the someone else went without a heart transplant to provide for him. There is far greater demand than supply for transplant organs.
You can go look. But it is what you suspected.
The ultimate “non-compliant” patient - basically on a self-destructive course most of his life, he could not put a second chance to work for himself even when given it.
Too bad - another patient probably could have put that heart to good use.
But he got to do some ‘selfies’.
Not worth my time, thanks to your analysis...lol.
said he had been stereotyped as a troubled teen
There are reasons for “stereotypes”.
And “troubleD” is not what I’d “stereotype” him as.
I see no reason to waste a heart transplant on an aspiring criminal. And the only reason he got it was because of the current climate of kowtowing to anyone who cries “racism”.
They essentially condemned ANOTHER person to death by giving this little thug the heart transplant.
OK...who didn’t see this coming!?!
I dunno, do you think they will total the Honda?
“We told you so” kinda rings hollow, but....
Hmmmm. My husband is a heart transplant recipient, going on five years. Before he could be placed on the transplant list, the battery of tests and intense psychological screening was daunting. I even had to be psychologically screened. I would suspect because he was a minor, there may be different guidelines, who knows but a complete waste of an organ. Interestingly, in speaking to the transplant team we work with, the number one cause of transplant failure/rejection is recipients failure to follow the medication regimen which is essential.
this is why I won’t sign up for being an organ donor....the “screening” they do is political at some times...useless in other times....
Which news channel is going to ask Al Sharpton about this, I wonder.
Not to be morbid, but is anything of his, including the heart, in donatable shape? Should be mandatory to donate what they can from this guy.
When oh when is the racism ever going to end? When will come the day when blacks can commit crimes without being hassled by the police? Oh excuse me, the POH-leese.
Oh yeah....the honda wrapped driver side around a steel pole. Its dead Jim.
How about the rich and famous celebrities, the drug addicts and alcoholics. Besides gangstas, the left always seems to make sure those slimebags get transplants as well. Probably the worst example I ever heard of was John Phillips from the 1960s group The Mamas and the Papas, he said he would smoke crack every 15 minutes and he got a liver transplant and the same week they released him he was at the bar drinking “To break in the new liver” in his words. Same with crack smoker David Crosby. Busted multiple times for drugs, needs a liver transplant and he immediately gets it. Same with Mickey Mantle, massive alcoholic gets a liver transplant AFTER he was diagnosed with cancer!
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