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I find this article is trying too hard to be poetical. It all starts with the title. What they describe is not the "Last hours of an organ donor". The last hou
by krisoft 2y ago
I find this article is trying too hard to be poetical.
It all starts with the title. What they describe is not the "Last hours of an organ donor". The last hour of the organ donor was spent in a car. They had an accident. After the accident they were in pain, fear and distress. We don't know the exact details but after some time people trying to help arrived. There might have been firefighters extracting her and paramedics trying all they could to save her. They transferred her to a hospital where they might have tried even more advanced things to save her. They failed. That's the end for that person. That was the "last hours of the organ donor". The process described in the article is not the last hour of her. It is beyond that.
> Indeed, she might even wake up and look at us, I fantasised. She might be raised from the dead.
If this was written by a real doctor I'm concerned that they are not mentally fit to practice this speciality. This article reveals that they don't have the right emotional constitution to perform the job without harming themselves.
> Simply put, there was no risk of malpractice, as my patient was already dead.
This again is wrong on so many levels. You can still ruin the organs. You can in fact kill many people during this procedure. Not the one under the blade, for that person is already dead. But the ones waiting for the organs. Will they be able to sue you? Probably not. So they are right there is no "risk of malpractice lawsuit" , there is still a high risk of malpractice.