Posted on 04/10/2010 6:35:23 PM PDT by Steelfish
Organs 'Removed For Transplant Without Consent'
It is illegal to take organs without consent. Organs may have been removed from deceased people without their consent after a data-handling error by the NHS. The blunder meant 800,000 people on the UK donor register had their wishes about the use of organs for transplant after death wrongly recorded. The Sunday Telegraph reported that 45 of them have now died - and 20 families let organs of relatives be taken based on incorrectly stored information.
NHS Blood and Transplant said it was urgently investigating. Many donors give consent for some organs to be used for transplant but not others, such as eyes. But the details of many donors' preferences were accidentally deleted in 1999. It is horrific that such sensitive details were handled in such a careless way Patient Concern. It first came to light in 2009 when NHS Blood and Transplant wrote to donors, reiterating what they had agreed to donate. But many wrote back saying the information was incorrect.
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Assumed consent, huh?
In before the Monty Python skit link.
I refuse to be a donor. Whenever I have to submit for a medical procedure, I make it clear they are to treat me as a living patient, not a potential farm to be “harvested’ and sent to a human chop-shop.
Oh all right.
Seniors are only good for Soylent Green anyway.
I had a very different attitude about that....until I grew old enough to be peat moss.
I wonder when some moonbat (British or otherwise) will call for mandatory organ donation laws? As far-fetched as it sounds, I can honestly see there being those who would latch on to it on the premise that it would be for the “public good.”
Scary thought, but there’s a lot of scary stuff these days...
Well, you gotta admit it is ‘green’ since it involves recycling. Also, I don’t think it was a mistake - it would help generate a lot of revenue to the medical industry so it was probably done intentionally and was already planned to be called a ‘mistake’ or ‘glitch’ upon discovery.
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