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"Medical errors kill almost 100000 Americans a year" [1] You're picking one horror story because it fits your parameters, and pretending it's something to worr
by VikingCoder 6y ago
"Medical errors kill almost 100000 Americans a year" [1]
You're picking one horror story because it fits your parameters, and pretending it's something to worry about. It's not. Cheers.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117251/
- anslq 6y agoI'm not aware that a medical procedure is opt-out, I always assumed it was voluntary. Unlike this state mandated organ seizure, if you haven't heard the news and opt-out of yet another thing.
- crooked-v 6y agoThere are about a million other things done to dead bodies that will kill a mistakenly-identified-as-dead person as stone dead as removing an organ, so organ donation specifically doesn't really have a special status here outside of it being potentially the first item on the long checklist.
- VikingCoder 6y agoEmergency procedures are often done without consent. Because patients are often unconscious and cannot give consent. Just like in your story.