Posted on 10/12/2009 8:02:05 AM PDT by Joiseydude
An Iraq war veteran died after receiving cancerous lungs from a heavy smoker in a transplant.
Matthew Millington, 31, a corporal in the Queen’s Royal Lancers, had the operation to save him from an incurable respiratory condition.
But the organs were from a donor who was believed to have smoked 30 to 50 roll-up cigarettes a day. A tumour was found after the transplant, and its growth was accelerated by the drugs that Mr Millington took to prevent his body rejecting the organs.
Because he was a cancer patient, he was not allowed to receive a further pair of lungs, under hospital rules. The soldier had radiotherapy but died at home in Stoke-on-Trent in February last year.
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A preview of ObamaCare
I’m guessing socialized medicine doesn’t involved pre-screeing organs before transplanting.
Come-on! It’s free medicine, not good medicine! Beggars can’t be choosers...and that’s exactly what we will all become!
Dear God what a nightmare.
Prayers for his family...I can’t imagine what this is like for them.
“I’m guessing socialized medicine doesn’t involved pre-screeing organs before transplanting.”
That probably costs too much money. Free health care isn’t cheap at all!/s
Johnson orders probe into organ transplant rules
A preview of coming attractions...?
This is a joke, right????
I'm assuming "he" is the soldier. They GAVE him lungs that had a good chance of becoming cancerous, so he has to suffer? Rules are rules?
The rules should be either don't use lungs from heavy smokers OR ask the recipient if he wants to take the chance.
I wonder if the “roll up” cigarettes were to avoid high taxes on pre-maid cigs.
“Because he was a cancer patient, he was not allowed to receive a further pair of lungs, under hospital rules.”
Rules are made to be broken.
THE DEATH PANEL SAID NO!
You said it: DEATH PANELS!
computer says no
*COUGH*
This is just bizarre enough that I question whether it is really true. Gotta watch out for the UK press. Not everything they print is quite true. Worse than the NYT even.
Ah yes the rationale thought process of the National Health Service —— can’t wait until it comes to us
Since you do, or soon will, receive ‘free government’ medical care, I don’t see why the government won’t start harvesting your organs. Why it make perfectly logical sense to me, that say you are a diet/health/exercise fanatic, one of the perfectly good kidneys shouldn’t be taken out and given to some meth,booze,couch potato urban dweller welfare victim.
After all, the governments have no problem taking away your money, which is the physical manifestation of all your days of study, work, struggle, and giving it to those who ‘have been less fortunate’ and haven’t had the opportunity to work 12 hour days, to pay/beg/borrow/enlist their way through some productive academic degree, who haven’t been able to moorgate everything to start a business and get fined, Fee’s, permitted, licensed, taxed every morning noon and night.
(Ps, did you know that your lung is split up into five lobes? You using them all? Hows that other eye? You could get by with one, you know.)
The joys of bureaucracy. "Hey, you berks, you gave me the cancer. Sorry but rules are rules; if we made an exception for you, we'd have to make one for everyone."
for the sake of Pete, why would we want to institute that in These United States???
some kind of catch 22
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