Horrifying organ donation article

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for the article, unfortunately all these screwups occurred at what sound like backwater regional or local hospitals in places that don’t seem to understand the criteria or procedures fully. They should not be accredited in the procedure. Look at the places: Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, etc. these are runky dink hospitals out of their depth and the real story here is about the massacre disparities in care between better urban and university hospitals vs often crummy little local options.

“Don’t worry this only happens to red state poors” as an argument isn’t persuasive. If anything you just made me even more glad I removed my name.

Hope you never need an organ. Karma sucks.

Karma doesn’t exist, unfortunately. I wish it did, so people like you who think it’s fine to execute poor and disadvantaged people to benefit organ transplant profits would receive what is due to them.

[Anonymous]

Eyeroll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eyeroll

Such sophisticated language. So erudite.

People on the fence, note that this is the kind of person who wants to sweep what was described the NYT article under the table. Make your decisions on whether to stay on the registry accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully they have better discernment and can recognize a troll when they see one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-transplants-donors-alive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE8.4Wof.6bugeMQGmcIs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How about doctors start learning how to prevent organ failure?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had the oppposite experience with a family member who we had to take off the ventilator because we were told there was no way of coming back from their brain injury. We wanted them to be an organ donor but the hospital said they didn’t meet the criteria because they were not “brain dead enough” due to some eye response at light or something. This was a family member who had cardiac arrest and was brought back by EMT’s.

He was alive, but you wanted to donate his organs? That makes no sense.

Alive only because the machines were breathing for them. They suffered a cardiac arrest and were without oxygen for over 7 minutes or more based on witness accounts of when they called 911 and they arrived to do cpr etc. Numerous scans etc showed there would never be any sort of meaningful recovery and was more or less brain dead. This was the opinion of many professionals. So before removing them from the ventilator we asked about organ donation, and were told no. That it’s very hard to qualify as “bread dead enough” more or less to donate organs. A lot of doctors apparently don’t want to make that call and be held responsible. So in our case it’s sad that a pretty health Middle aged adult wasn’t able to donate any organs.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they didn’t want to tell you his organs had no value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they didn’t want to tell you his organs had no value.

This is not how this works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they didn’t want to tell you his organs had no value.

This is not how this works.

You weren’t there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they didn’t want to tell you his organs had no value.

This is not how this works.

You weren’t there.

I have been there many times. You don't lie to a family about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they didn’t want to tell you his organs had no value.

This is not how this works.

You weren’t there.

I have been there many times. You don't lie to a family about this.

I wish. Some doctors lie routinely. I’ve personally seen it, behind closed doors of course.

[Anonymous]

The time period since the NYT article has led to the sharpest drop-off of people from the registries ever recorded. And the trade groups aren’t happy.

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-remove-organ-donor-registries-nyt-coverage-2109940

[Anonymous]

Who is the dodo who put themselves on a state government registry for organ donation in the first place?

Not bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The time period since the NYT article has led to the sharpest drop-off of people from the registries ever recorded. And the trade groups aren’t happy.

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-remove-organ-donor-registries-nyt-coverage-2109940

I’m sure the people needing organs are even less happy. This article probably will be responsible for a lot of people dying unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The time period since the NYT article has led to the sharpest drop-off of people from the registries ever recorded. And the trade groups aren’t happy.

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-remove-organ-donor-registries-nyt-coverage-2109940

I’m sure the people needing organs are even less happy. This article probably will be responsible for a lot of people dying unnecessarily.

There was a girl in 2021 who was in a bike riding accident. The doctors convinced her parents that she would never recover and harvested her organs after a week. We have since learned that many children with similar injuries actually do recover given more time. But Molly was not - you have to wonder is it because her organs were so valuable? https://people.com/human-interest/molly-steinsapir-mom-chronicled-bike-accident-injury-twitter-dies/