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They are about organ misuse, which these days would likely include donations (less common at the time). >you surely have larger problems Maybe, but that's one
by toyg 5y ago
They are about organ misuse, which these days would likely include donations (less common at the time).
>you surely have larger problems
Maybe, but that's one more incentive, and not a small one either. Even the definition of "braindead" is somewhat controversial in many circumstances, nowadays, with doctors having the power to make some pretty radical choices - occasionally even against the explicit wishes of patient and family.
- novaRom 5y agoBirmingham Children's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool had also given thymus glands, removed from live children during heart surgery, to a pharmaceutical company for research in return for financial donations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal