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Of course, organ donation is far from a guarantee. There are a lot of complications and challenges, and it's major surgery.
by grecy 6y ago
Of course, organ donation is far from a guarantee. There are a lot of complications and challenges, and it's major surgery.
- eganist 6y agoNo disagreement at all. Coming back to the calculus performed: if the odds of survival are much less than certain, what's the point at which a doctor, thinking algorithmically rather than with a mission, decides that there's more value in lives saved from a patient's organs than in trying to save the primary patient and potentially losing organ viability (or just time) if the mission fails? I'm pretty certain the vast majority of doctors will obey the Hippocratic Oath as intended. I'm also somewhat certain that a minority subset of doctors will interpret the Oath differently than others, and this is the most impossible assertion to falsify because very few surgeons/teams will admit this short of a certifiably anonymous survey... if that.