Posted on 07/09/2013 8:31:56 AM PDT by grundle
It was exactly midnight when Caroline Burns eerily opened her eyes and looked at the operating lights above her, shocking doctors who believed she was dead and were about to remove her organs and donate them to patients on the transplant waiting list.
The Syracuse Post-Standard unearthed a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that chronicled the series of errors that led to the near-organ removal on a living patient at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2009.
"The patient did not suffer a cardiopulmonary arrest (as documented) and did not have irreversible brain damage," the HHS report concluded. "The patient did not meet criteria for withdrawal of care."
According to the report, doctors had inaccurately diagnosed Burns with irreversible brain damage and ignored nurses who'd noticed signs that Burns was improving: She curled her toes when touched, flared her nostrils and moved her mouth and tongue. She was also breathing on her own even though she was on a respirator.
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I am not for reason like this. My family can make that decision at the time.
Trust, but verify.
My mom was always worried about that concerning her gold caps on some of her molars.
I hate it when that happens!
I made up my own Organ Donation Card.
It says my organs will be donated for transplant at my death, IF and ONLY IF the recipients are not charged ONE PENNY for any of the medical costs related to receiving them. If they are charged my family will be entitled to a penalty of $5 million per incident.
When I die I suspect the doctor who finds that is the one who is going to need revived.
I am not, and this incident isn't going to change that.
But it does reinforce my opinion of the medical profession.
Docs running a “chop shop”!
While hospitals cannot “sell” human organs, they can “charge” for the transplant itself. Meaning, the hospital has a financial interest in having organs available to transplant.
In order to be able to harvest a person’s organs, that person has to be declared dead. If you are declared dead, there is no need to administer anesthesia prior to you being opened up and your organs taken.
Don’t have the link/source, but I recall reading that clinically dead patients that were wired to record brain activity, showed the same type of brain activity during organ removal as people who are experiencing pain and/or fear.
Given this, and stories I have heard of hospitals/doctors pressuring grieving families into pulling the plug on a loved one so as to provide “life” to patients on the transplant list, I have removed myself from the organ donor list.
My family is aware that I wish my organs to be used to help other…but on my and my families terms. I am to be “all dead” and not just “mostly dead”. In addition, I am to be sedated as if I were going into surgery. With those conditions met, go ahead and part me out.
It’s good to know your organs will go to people who are in prison for life for varied and assorted heinous crimes. They get to be on the list, too.
Get’em while there hot!
I've always found it interesting that the only person not legally allowed to profit from organ transplantation is the person (or his heirs) who actually owns the valuable organs. Cut the donor and family in on the transplant profits and you will have a lot more donor organs.
Although I would be worried about family members coming in with one of those "cuts of beef" charts and an organ price list. Last time I was in the hospital they had unplugged my TV, bed and cell phone charger before I could tell them I wasn't on life support.
Miracle Max: "You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
Shhh, go back to sleep - you're only dreaming....
CART DRIVER
Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN
Here’s one!
CART DRIVER
Ninepence.
BODY
I’m not dead!
CART DRIVER
What?
LARGE MAN
Nothing... There’s your ninepence.
BODY
I’m not dead!
CART DRIVER
‘Ere. He says he’s not dead.
LARGE MAN
Yes he is.
BODY
I’m not!
CART DRIVER
He isn’t.
LARGE MAN
He will be soon. He’s very ill.
BODY
I’m getting better!
LARGE MAN
You’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a few minutes.
CART DRIVER
I can’t take him like this. It’s against regulations.
BODY
I don’t want to go on the cart.
LARGE MAN
Don’t be such a baby.
CART DRIVER
I can’t take him.
BODY
I feel fine.
“The patient did not suffer a cardiopulmonary arrest (as documented) and did not have irreversible brain damage,” the HHS report concluded. “The patient did not meet criteria for withdrawal of care.”
Well, snap...I HATE it when that happens!
” Patient Wakes Up as Doctors Get Ready to Remove Organs”
So what made them stop?
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