HUGE MONEY for hospitals in this racket. I worked in a major university teaching hospital that had a huge transplant department.
After hearing what they said in the hallway, reading the medical reports, watching how they pressured distraught family members in the ER to sign transplant authorization, seeing the "celebration" ceremonies, I promptly changed my donor status. That was in early 2000s. I'm sure things are 10000x worse now.
Do you have any insider knowledge of how much money they get? It breaks my heart because I can remember my 19 year old nephew was in an auto accident in 2008 and after days of being on life support they suggested we remove him and he could donate his organs. My family agreed and we were allowed to be with him as he "died". Later, my father and I went in to the ICU to discuss what we needed to do about the body. I pointed out to my dad that my nephew was still breathing. His chest was moving, very slightly, but it was. I brought it up to the attending nurse and she tried to play it off as involuntary movements after death. I don't know what the truth was, but I'll go to my grave with this before I tell my brother and sister in law what I saw.
Sad..unfortunately this happens especially with young hearts. They say now a body is worth millions. They can harvest bone marrow many days after death now. Check out RTI surgical & Clinton Foundation if you want to be sickened.
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GhostOfSwartz ago
This makes me leary of being an organ donor too. How quick are they to seem you brain dead. Does the hospital get paid for the organs?
equineluvr ago
HUGE MONEY for hospitals in this racket. I worked in a major university teaching hospital that had a huge transplant department.
After hearing what they said in the hallway, reading the medical reports, watching how they pressured distraught family members in the ER to sign transplant authorization, seeing the "celebration" ceremonies, I promptly changed my donor status. That was in early 2000s. I'm sure things are 10000x worse now.
GhostOfSwartz ago
Do you have any insider knowledge of how much money they get? It breaks my heart because I can remember my 19 year old nephew was in an auto accident in 2008 and after days of being on life support they suggested we remove him and he could donate his organs. My family agreed and we were allowed to be with him as he "died". Later, my father and I went in to the ICU to discuss what we needed to do about the body. I pointed out to my dad that my nephew was still breathing. His chest was moving, very slightly, but it was. I brought it up to the attending nurse and she tried to play it off as involuntary movements after death. I don't know what the truth was, but I'll go to my grave with this before I tell my brother and sister in law what I saw.
Jem777 ago
Sad..unfortunately this happens especially with young hearts. They say now a body is worth millions. They can harvest bone marrow many days after death now. Check out RTI surgical & Clinton Foundation if you want to be sickened.