Posted on 09/26/2012 8:38:50 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested — and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged yesterday.
The federally funded nonprofit used a “quota” system, and leaned heavily on the next of kin to sign consent forms when patients were not registered as organ donors, the suit charged.
“They’re playing God,” said plaintiff Patrick McMahon, 50, an Air Force combat veteran and nurse practitioner who claims he was fired as a transplant coordinator after just four months for protesting the practice.
The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, cited four examples of improper organ harvesting.
In September 2011, a 19-year-old man injured in a car wreck was admitted to Nassau University Medical Center. He was still trying to breathe and showed signs of brain activity, the suit charged.
But doctors declared him brain dead under pressure from donor-network officials, including Director Michael Goldstein, who allegedly said during a conference call: “This kid is dead, you got that?” the suit charged.
The patient’s family consented to have the organs harvested.
“I have been in Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan in combat. I worked on massive brain injuries, trauma, gunshot wounds, IEDs. I have seen worse cases than this and the victims recover,” McMahon told The Post.
That same month, a woman was admitted to St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx still showing signs of life, the suit said.
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In November 2011, a woman admitted to Staten Island University Hospital after a drug overdose was declared brain dead and her organs were about to be harvested when McMahon noticed that she was being given “a paralyzing anesthetic” because her body was still jerking.
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A friend of mine just donated a kidney to a co-worker. The recipient had no matches among the few family members who were eligible. Both are doing well!
Well the “affordable care act” with its death pannels is designed to reduce costs by ending the lives fo the elderly based on the burden they present.
This is bothersome. Whatever happened to death occurring when the heart stops beating???
i specified that nothing will be removed from my body without just and fair compensation. why should everybody in the chain of transplants make money except the source?funny how if everybody adopted this scheme, then i bet the supply would greatly increase...just sayin’
I don’t think it is the money, or at least not directly. I think it is utilitarianism.
The doctors are thinking, if this patient survives he will be severely brain-damaged (the worst fate imaginable to doctors, who have enormous pride in their intelligence, and tend to be control freaks.) OTOH, if this patient dies he can provide a better quality of life to half a dozen mentally competent people.
Sure the surgeries and the anti-rejection drugs will be really expensive but at least it is not futile, pointless spending in caring for a patient who is vegetative or severely brain-damaged.
And it’s really better for the family anyway - let it be a clean quick death with the consolation of having done something good in saving others, rather than a long, lingering, living death for someone who will never recover a meaningful life.
So do they justify themselves.
People in China also make aborted baby soup as a aphrodisiac.
These are human evils that are resultant of man-centered morality. Without God, we only answer to man. This is what is reflected in New York and Washington and Massachusetts and China and any “secularist” society/culture.
We have raised generations of children to believe life is disposable and that its importance/sanctity/dignity should give way to convenience, need, want, cost, difficulty, etc, all depending on someone else’s desires.
Obamacare will be just like the people who rammed it through and into law despite the wishes of Americans - an atheistic socialist culture of death.
This is why I am not an organ donor. I KNOW the stuff that goes on. When there are people involved, there are mistakes. An organ donor statement or DNR is like getting a power of attorney, in a way. You’ve given away your right to make that decision at the time it may matter.
I have kids, they know my wishes.
When I renewed by driver’s license earlier this year, I declined to designate myself as an organ donor for the first time in many years. I no longer have confidence in the hierarchy that controls such medical decisions, and particularly not since government involvement in medical decisions is constantly increasing.
There was a picture on Drudge the other day of a man they ran over in a road flattening machine because he would not get out the way while they were taking his land. I’m sorry I looked, it’s still with me.
I kept thinking, at least here they arrest you, rather than run you over.
sounds like the benevolent system “*His Divine Shadow” setup.
*from the SciFi show Lexx
Whoops should be clearer on that, the picture was in China.
Now I’m thinking, the driver is probably in trouble because they can’t harvest the flat guys organs...at least not his brains...
what is that from?
For Now.
China? At least they have no influence on our leaders. It’s not like we’re indebted to them or anything. Oh, yeah, nevermind.
consider our new “collectivist medical care”
research grinds to a halt. No more advancements since government controls. (see Atlas Shrugged and the only thing government scientists devloped as a nifty new metal polish)
No gene therapy, no long term treatment. no eldercare. Just take your soma and die. (see brave new world for those from rio linda)
Having someone else decide or place a value on the life of another is end of freedom.
and what has caused so much damage in our past and present
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