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Originally posted by gigi@Feb 23 2003, 01:52 AM
Yeah, I understand the parents anger at the hospital....but I honestly cannot understand taking out that anger on another family waiting for life.
LL, I believe if her organs weren't 'good', they wouldn't have asked them to donate in the first place?? Her brain damage was due to the first transplant that was the wrong blood type....she never did recover from that obviously.....but I would think if it created problems for her other organs they wouldn't have asked for them??
As Peaches said, even skin....eyes, and other things would be a blessing for someone out there.
The only reason I can think of that I 'might' accept, would be wanting all the organs in place for the autopsy so I could sue the pants off the hospital....'cause we all know this is going to happen....it won't even go to court....Duke will pay. I saw one of the Duke Doc's on TV apologizing profusely....they don't have a leg to stand on if it went to court.
Of course, this is still 'morally wrong'....but that's what I'd 'feel' like doing if I were them.
A very sad story indeed....
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You know, I suppose if we can speculate that the parents are going to be greedy bastards and sue the kind, benevolent, lovable but bumbling doctors at Duke, there just might - maybe - sorta kinda - be a little "damage control" going on here, too. I mean, really ... two days after this thing goes terribly wrong there are stories all over the media about the illegal immigrant status? Not only are they stealing every dishwashing job in the country, now they've come here to steal our red-white-and-blue organs from gawd-fearin 'mericans! How come nobody was screaming about that before the fact? And why the need for releasing the information about the parent's refusal to donate organs, anyway? You would think that would be private medical information, wouldn't you?
I still think it's pretty presumtuous of those of us sitting here speculating on what they should do to criticize people who've just been through the emotional roller coaster these people have been through. I can tell you that I'd like to I'd be benevolent about it - but more likely I would be as irrational as hell, and in jail over one dead fucking doctor.
Of course, I realize they are just illegals, and they only reason they came here was to get the big payoff - they're probably just overjoyed with their windfall, right?