Your statement is absolutely untrue. Nobody in the ER is going through your billfold looking for your organ donor status when you’re wheeled in so they can decide on your method of treatment. Hospitals do NOT make big bucks off organ donations.
No, but more and more, hospitals are treating everyone as an organ donor unless there is specific documentation that they are not.
Hospitals do NOT make big bucks off organ donations.
Perhaps not directly, but organ harvesting is a big business and many doctors and hospitals are making money because of it.
Maybe the butchers could find better paying jobs at a meat packing plant.
No, they make bucks off of saving people with the donated organs.
don’t need to go through the wallet, if you are identified in an accident and you were foolish enough to signe the organ donor card on your license, your name is in the database.
Plus hospitals treat EVERYONE as an organ donor unless there is known family present.
Sorry but hospital motives are not pure as the driven ssnot.
I have to disagree with you; while ER docs may not be front and center on this, I’ve seen too many overly aggressive transplant teams to recommend that anyone sign an organ donor card...and, for the record, transplant surgeons make a very nice living.
because of the 1998 medicare law, anyone, regardless of whether they signed or not, is subject to their family being approached, this is to stimulate “organ donation”
any hospital that accepts medicare funds, must call the local, federally designated “organ donor” business, and let them know that they have a prospect, the hospital must report to the “donor agency” and the “donor agency” keeps tabs on the prospect
if it looks good (a good specimen) the donor agency will approach the family, organ donor card or not