Posted on 01/03/2014 6:34:06 PM PST by Marie
At least one in five patients declared brain dead and approved as organ donors by one organ donation organization, are in fact still alive and are being killed by the removal of vital organs, a lawsuit filed last week in Manhattan alleges. The suit outlines the ghoulish worst-case scenario, one that was widely dismissed as scaremongering in the early days of the development of organ transplant technology, but which is getting a second hearing amidst growing concerns that coercion and abuse are becoming increasingly common in the highly lucrative transplant business.
Patrick McMahon, a nurse practitioner and Air Force combat veteran, launched the suit in New York alleging that a major organ donation group is using a quota system for obtaining viable organs. He says it is applying pressure on families and doctors to declare patients dead who are, in fact, still alive and could recover.
The New York Organ Donor Network, McMahon says, even hires “coaches” to help obtain consent notes.These coaches, the suit contends, are nothing more than sales and marketing experts who teach transplant coordinators to use high-pressure psychological tactics to play on the emotions of vulnerable family members. The suit alleges that employees who failed to make their quotas were fired.
“You’re not there for grief counseling,” he told the Daily Mail, “you’re there to get organs. It’s all about sales—and that’s pretty much a direct quote from the organization. Counselors are required to get a 30 per cent consent rate from families." The top counselors get a Christmas bonus, he added.
McMahon’s suit cites one case in which a 19-year-old car crash victim was struggling to breathe and showing signs of brain activity, but doctors signed off on the donation.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
The girl is dead. At least three doctors and a coroner have determined that. She needs to be laid to rest. She is dead.
Christopher Reeve was not brain dead. Neither is Steven Hawkings.
Nothing can be done because she is dead.
Vegetative and brain dead are not the same thing.
Vegetative and brain dead are not the same thing.
Many people were declared “brain dead” and lived to tell about it later. Look it up.
‘”When you love your children the way I love mine, you go above and beyond,” Winkfield said. “Every time I go in and see Jahi, it makes me want to keep pushing forward.
“When I talk to her, she moves. ... If I felt my child was suffering, I would not keep her on that machine.”
Jahi’s uncle, Omari Sealey, added: “The fight isn’t over. We are very optimistic.”’
(excerpt) http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_24840744/jahi-mcmath-mom-can-remove-brain-dead-daughter
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