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nick_h.
Muc-ed-off
Trigger: extreme disregard for life, drug use, abuse, nightmare fuel.
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Gonna x-post this in US news because it tracks with how the US is devolving into a pseudo-country where only money matters. Here’s possibly one of the most epic wtfs in recent memory:
Better coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive
https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/18/organ-donor-came-back-life-doctors-prepared-remove-heart-21819184/amp/
The article doesn’t do the story and the victim justice but it’s better than the Guardians pathetic attempt, which downplays the seriousness of it all.
In a paragraph: A middle-aged drug user has an overdose and is taken to hospital by his family. He’s declared braindead and the family agree to organ donation, including his heart. The patient is prepped for surgery and the family notice his eyes opening and tracking their specific movements, but they’re told it’s only reflexes. The patient starts “thrashing” about during a preparatory procedure, so medical staff sedate him. The patient is taken to the surgical ward and is seen crying. A transplant doctor has a minor breakdown, and both transplantists refuse to do the surgery. A representative from KODA, a for-profit transplant admin agency, calls their boss from the hospital to tell them the situation, and the boss demands they find a replacement doctor because the transplant needs to go ahead. The patient is eventually declared living and the surgery is aborted. He currently lives with his sister and has some cognitive and memory issues following the episode.
Basically, multiple people employed in the medical profession thought they could get away with killing a drug addict and taking his organs. Guy is alive by pure luck.