Posted on 03/09/2009 11:05:06 AM PDT by Born Conservative
A district attorney says no crimes were committed by officials at a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital when organs were harvested from an 18-year-old Ohio man who suffered a head injury while snowboarding.
Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk says Friday his review of the medical files shows the hospital followed proper procedures in declaring Gregory Jacobs dead and getting permission to take his organs in March 2007.
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As we all suspected....
Look Dave! Here’s that lower intestine we’ve been looking for! Never mind the oxygen, this man’s a donor!
PA of course.
Am I wrong?
If the drivers license signature is used to override the family's wishes, then that's a really good reason to not sign that donor slot on your drivers license.
Maybe because he was no longer a child in the eyes of the law, as he had turned 18. Thus, he, not his parents, was the final arbiter of that decision.
the guy was 18, therefore an adult and his family would have no override of his signature, as far as I know.
The point of signing the card is so you make the decission, not your family.
If that is not what you want, you should not sign the card. You should also avoid advanced medical directives and living wills.
The family was available.
Organ transplants are a profit center.
I find cashing in on a tragedy despite the family's wishes to be highly repugnant.
Organ transplants are the most lucrative medical profit centers there is.
I'm not 100% certain of the case with Ohio, but most states have a junior driver's license from 16-18 which restricts the hours one can be on the road, the number of people in the car etc. Most kids are lining up at the DMV on their 18th Birthday, or as soon as possible thereafter to "upgrade." Of course I have no way of knowing if that's the case here, but most normal, healthy male 18 years olds will have a new DL in their wallet within a week of turning 18....
So much for having a will if family members could change it to suit themselves. Or, would the signature on a will override the wishes of the family.
Some people sign the donor card without really thinking about it, because they want to be "nice people."
Don't you find the fact that organ transplants are the most lucrative profit center in the entire medical industry a bit troubling?
You don't think Obama's Health Care Czars will look upon this as a way to subsidize the rest of the system?
You don't think that they will err on the side of the dollars when making these kinds of decisions.
If something happens to me and my family wants to donate my organs, fine, but I am NOT willing to allow Obamacare bureaucrats to make that decision.
Keeping you alive is worth more to the hospital in billable dollars.
Keeping you alive if your brain is dead is not necessarily an ethical thing to do.
Where do you think all of this organ money is coming from? Selling organs is illegal.
If he’s 18, and signed the donor card, the parents have no say (legally). There was just a case (in PA) near where I live that was similar, and the law prevailed.
As for it being a reason for not signing a donor card, it was apparently the 18 year old’s wish to donate his organs, so why should the parents of this adult be able to go against his wishes? (if he did, in fact, sign a donor card)
Hmmm, hospitals are “profit centers”; do you consider them vile for “cashing in” on people’s illnesses?
The problem with these types of situations is that it’s a highly emotional time for everyone involved. If my son signed a donor card over the age of 18, what right do I have to go against his wishes, and deny his organs to others? It’s his decision to make; not mine, and I respect that.
Probably. But I repeat, why should anybody bother with a will or signing a donor card if the family can override the wishes of the deceased?
If something happens to me and my family wants to donate my organs, fine, but I am NOT willing to allow Obamacare bureaucrats to make that decision.
Puh-leeze! This was going on before there was an Obama!
I assume if you or your family needed an organ transplant you would change your opinion in a NY minute!
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