“because a doctor was in a hurry to harvest his organs.”
There is no way to tell that from the information in the article.
I don’t know why everyone has this idea that ER docs are hanging out waiting for organs to come available. In 23 years, I have never seen a doctor that was happy about the prospect of harvesting organs. I have transported hundreds that were destined to become organ donors, and have never seen a doctor fail to do everything they could to save a patient. Never.
We can keep people alive on life support, which allows time for tests to determine whether there is brain activity. So the idea of rushing to harvest organs is just silly. The rush comes on the other side of organ donation, after the organ has been harvested. There is a very limited time available between harvesting and transplant, so the harvested organ is often rushed to the recipient, and the recipient is often rushed to the hospital for surgery.
I don’t know what happened in this case, because there isn’t enough information available to tell. But to equate a transplant doctor with a doctor that euthanizes patients or provides abortion is horribly wrong.
I think you misread me. Most doctors are OK, but some are better than others, and there are a few bad apples in any profession. I’ve run into a few incompetent doctors in my lifetime, and also had some who were extraordinarily good.
I don’t fault this doctor. He was probably going by the book. I don’t expect that he was hurrying to harvest the organs on purpose. I’m just saying that it adds some risk and some complication.