Posted on 01/26/2022 8:04:15 AM PST by Coronal
A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports.
DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life and in desperate need of a heart transplant.
His father, David Ferguson, is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son who, he told CBS Boston, "has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit."
DJ's family says he was at the front of the line to receive a transplant but hospital policy stipulates that he's no longer eligible because he hasn't received the vaccination. And David Ferguson says his son simply won't.
"It's kind of against his basic principles — he doesn't believe in it," David Ferguson says. "It's a policy they are enforcing and so, because he won't get the shot, they took him off the list (for) a heart transplant."
Brigham and Women's released a statement saying, "Like many other transplant programs in the United States — the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates in the Mass General Brigham system in order to create both the best chance for a successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation."
Dr. Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, explains that being vaccinated is necessary for this type of procedure.
"Post any transplant, kidney, heart whatever, your immune system is shut off," Caplan said. "The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance of surviving."
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There are NO death panels...until there are. or First Do No Harm, unless they are unvaxxed...then kill them all.
What ever happened to “Do no harm” in the Hypocratic oath?
Stop offering your organs to the State
Get the poor guy out of that future third-world state and somewhere where real doctors live and work.
“Dr. Arthur Caplan, the head of medical ethics”
Imagine that. The head of “medical ethics” making excuses NOT to save a patient. I smell a lawsuit after death.
Murderers.
Evil
Exactly. Get him the hell out of there.
I’m waiting for a spot on the surgery calendar (non covid related) but my surgeon assures me that my vax history won’t have anything to do with it. The reason for the wait is that 1000 staff at my hospital quit.
A heart attack is way better than the sniffles
So in about 3 years doctors have changed their job description from saving lives to ending them.
That is your modern doctor - killers!
... but not wearing a mask (at least in the collective known as D.C.) will assure you will not get a private lap dance.
Is this a great country or what! (Irrationality and fear rules the day!)
They are killing him because he won’t do what they say to take a useless vaccine.
Opps! Posted this on the wrong thread! Sorry ...
Is there some vaccine for the common cold I don't know about?
This "ethicist", imho, is stretching to justify denial based on the patient's refusal.
I sure hope Santa is keeping a list.
Massachusetts has a history of shooting people who wear coats.
In 1775, they were Red Coats
tyrants!
Stop offering your organs to the State
I did, why allow them to sew yer dick on a woman?
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