[DogBarkTree]

I bet this happens more than you would think. I wonder Doctors in ERs earn commissions on organs obtained?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I wonder Doctors in ERs earn commissions on organs obtained?”

No. No physician in the US earns a commission for anything like this. It would be a felony, rightfully so.

[outofstyle]

I bet this happens more than you would think. I wonder Doctors in ERs earn commissions on organs obtained?

No and no. However, organs are "harvested" routinely from patients who are openly acknowledged not to be brain dead. The process is called "non beating heart procurement." In this situation, patients who are severely injured, but not brain dead, are taken with the consent of the family to the OR. The ventilator is turned off with procurement surgeons standing by. When the patient is pronounced dead, the organs are harvested.

I am not making this up. It is "legal" and it happens all the time. I have seen it. In fact, I have been pressured to participate.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I doubt doctors do these things intentionally, but my doctor friends have told be point blank: “Never pre-declare your willingness to be a organ donor!” If you wish to do so, advise your next-of-kin, but putting it on file in the medical system will ensure that if your life cannot be easily saved, it won’t be. That’s just human nature; letting you die “at least helps someone else.”

[Muzzle_em]

THIS part made me cringe-

After Sanchez agreed to donate, she said, she got calls “at least twice a day” from the organ group, saying: “We have to get the body parts in a certain time. Your dad can be a life-saver to someone else. How is he doing today? Did he go up or down?”

[w1andsodidwe]

I saw this same thing happen with a 17 year old boy. The family was told he was brain dead and asked for the organs. The family refused. He later walked out of the care facility where I worked. This was in the 70’s. It is the reason I won’t sign a doner card.

[pitinkie]

NO THEY DONT AND THATS AN IGNORANT REMARK!