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Comatose woman woke up moments before organ harvesting surgery... but pushy donor boss 'told doctors to operate anyway'
Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2025 | Will Potter

Posted on 08/05/2025 4:01:01 PM PDT by Angelino97

An organ harvesting organization has faced allegations that it urged doctors to remove body parts from a comatose woman - who went on to make a full recovery after medics insisted she showed signs of life.

Danella Gallegos said she feels lucky to be alive after her organs were almost taken by 'pushy' donor bosses when she fell into a coma in 2022.

Gallegos, who was 38 at the time, was homeless when she suffered an unspecified medical emergency, and doctors at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico told her family she would never recover.

Without any hope, her family agreed to donate her organs and preparations were made with procurement organization New Mexico Donor Services.

In her final days, Gallegos' family said they saw tears in her eyes - a sign that they say donation coordinators quickly brushed off, claiming watery eyes were just a reflex.

On the day her organs were set to be taken, one of Gallegos' sisters said she was adamant Danella was still sentient because she saw her move while holding her hand.

Doctors in a pre-surgery room were left stunned when Gallegos, deep in a coma but still medically alive, was able to blink her eyes on the medic's command.

But the organ coordinator in the room told doctors that they should ply the patient with morphine and move ahead anyway, according to a New York Times report.

Gallegos's doctors defied the coordinators, and they brought her out of surgery.

The doctors' decision saved her life - as Gallegos went on to make a full recovery...

Hospital workers told the Times that they faced pressure from New Mexico Donor Services to forge ahead despite their doubts, which the organization denied.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: newmexico; yellowjournalism

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1 posted on 08/05/2025 4:01:01 PM PDT by Angelino97
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Attempted murder for the donor coordinator - no less is acceptable.


2 posted on 08/05/2025 4:03:15 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Angelino97

New Mexico?? Huh? Oh that’s right, blue state


3 posted on 08/05/2025 4:04:09 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Angelino97

Monty Python - The Meaning of Life Live Organ Transplants

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0


4 posted on 08/05/2025 4:04:44 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Angelino97

Hmm. I knew I shoulda taken a left at Albuquerque


5 posted on 08/05/2025 4:05:20 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Angelino97

Ghouls got to get paid


6 posted on 08/05/2025 4:06:21 PM PDT by daku
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To: MortMan

The medical establishment has a long history of mistreating and murdering people for its agenda.


7 posted on 08/05/2025 4:08:19 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: Angelino97

Stories like this are why I changed my donor status on my license.


8 posted on 08/05/2025 4:09:08 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: MortMan

Or conspiracy to commit murder.


9 posted on 08/05/2025 4:10:50 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Valpal1

“Stories like this are why I changed my donor status on my license.”

I never volunteered. Hell, my liver would kill a normal person.


10 posted on 08/05/2025 4:12:44 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Angelino97

Buddy: Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad! I’m not in a coma any more!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Thank God!

Mr. Dionosopolis: [ embarrassed ] Buddy..? Buddy..?

Buddy: [ raising finger ] Ohhhhh.. what are you doing? Were you pulling the plug on me!

Mr. Dionosopolis: [ trying to explain ] Buddy, the doctor told us you were a vegetable.

Doctor: I, for one, am baffled!

Buddy: But pulling the plug!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Buddy, we were just doing what you told your father about “dying with dignity”, you know? If you ever got hit in the head with a sledgehammer and had to be kept alive by machines? You remember!

Buddy: I never said anything like that, Mom.

Mr. Dionosopolis: Oh, yeahh.. you remember, don’t you? It was that one day, remember? You weren’t asking yourself, you were real strange.. I thought, “Gee, that’s not like Buddy, wants to die like that..” But I figured, what the heck, okay! You said it, though! You said, it, you just forgot!

Buddy: [ laughing ] I probably forgot about it!

Mr. Dionosopolis: Well, buddy, do you fell good enough to go home?

Buddy: [ excited ] Yeah, that would be just great!

Mrs. Dionosopolis: Alright. I’ll fix you a nice big lunch!

Mr. Dionosopolis: And we’ll go hunting first thing next week, okay? [ turns to Doctor ] Thanks a lot, Doctor! Thanks for almost killing little Buddy!

[ family exits hospital room ]

Doctor: Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!


11 posted on 08/05/2025 4:15:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

Dystopian Idiocracy.


12 posted on 08/05/2025 4:16:43 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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It's a good idea not to be an organ donor.

13 posted on 08/05/2025 4:17:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Perhaps the organ coordinator should give up a few of his organs...


14 posted on 08/05/2025 4:18:51 PM PDT by crusher2013
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I wonder how the parents feel that gave permission to mutilate their children, only to find out they were still alive. The one woman’s breastplate had already been sawn into when they discovered her heart was still beating, and she was breathing. Unbelievable that in this day and age this crap still happens.


15 posted on 08/05/2025 4:19:20 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Angelino97

The perfect reason to NOT be an organ donor.

Someone is always willing to kill you for money.


16 posted on 08/05/2025 4:21:18 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Angelino97

The entire organ “donation” business is ghoulish, and I will have nothing to do with it either as a donor or as a recipient.


17 posted on 08/05/2025 4:21:22 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Angelino97

“”An organ harvesting organization has faced allegations that it urged doctors to remove body parts from a comatose woman - who went on to make a full recovery after medics insisted she showed signs of life.””

That was God that woke her up just in the nick of time. This is a cautionary tale. There are demons among us. Ghouls in the medical industry that care nothing for human life. And after watching these type of ghouls starve a woman TO DEATH (Terri Shiavo), I became only too aware of them. Don’t ever sign a DNR, either... because many of these ghouls interpret that as a “don’t bother to treat” either.


18 posted on 08/05/2025 4:26:46 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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How long until the name of the evil “organ coordinator in the room” is revealed? Hopefully soon and this monster rapidly becomes infamously unemployable ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE.

I wouldn’t trust that soul with the care of my ex-wife’s cat.
...and I dislike cats


19 posted on 08/05/2025 4:33:11 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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I can't tell - is she wearing a Cross of Christ there? I think so but from this angle...


20 posted on 08/05/2025 4:34:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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