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>Hospitals and surgeons will not operate on you unless you are not expected to recover, or regain consciousness. Except when they can cut corners, because "ok,

• Symmetry 14y ago
  The people who would be cutting the corners see the people whose lives they're giving up on, but they never meet the people who would be using their organs. Doctors and nurses still make mistakes and get lazy, but I don't think it has anything to do with organ donation.
• bryanlarsen 14y ago
  It's my impression that Doctors are generally very conservative about this, for 2 major reasons: - they take the Hippocratic oath very seriously. It's a big part of the culture and indoctrination of medical students. - they've seen enough examples of people dying from seemingly minor conditions and others of people recovering from seemingly irrecoverable situations to know that their predictive powers are quite fallible So sure, I expect Doctors to cut corners and make mistakes, after all, they are human. But this is one area where I expect that they're much more likely to err by not declaring death soon enough...
  • batista 14y ago
    >- they take the Hippocratic oath very seriously. It's a big part of the culture and indoctrination of medical students. The same doctors in bed with big-Pharma, that shove prescriptions around for money and paid-all-expenses trips? The same doctors that perform unnecessary operations for a buck?
  • vadman 14y ago
    Do you go to "Doctors" much? You have an extremely idealistic image of them.