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Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio... by SamReidHughes on Monday August 28, 2017 @01:12AM (#15114524)
I read a specific story where the doctor or doctors wanted to use a body for organs because they thought death was certain, the family resisted, and because the doctor was wrong, maybe had wrong info, the patient lived. I didn't write it down into my book of anecdotes for future message board posting.

It certainly isn't one in ten million "evil" doctors. Consider that you might be underestimating the likelihood because you want people to be organ donors. I'd say the main reason the official respectable stance is that you'll never have your organs harvested when you would live is that people want more organ donors so they fall for whatever belief helps make it happen.

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Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio... by mikeash on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:38AM (#15116792)
Do you have some specific information about this? Every time it comes up, it's always vague "my cousin's wife's sister's uncle" nonsense. It makes me suspicious.
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Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio... by SamReidHughes on Monday August 28, 2017 @04:08PM (#15119662)
Nope. And I'm suspicious too. The weird thing is, this was some off-hand anecdote about some other topic, for which organ harvesting wasn't even the subject. Anyway, whenever organs are harvested from a patient who would have lived, it's not like we'd know. Assuming you don't believe the rate this happens is zero, I'm not sure we have substantially different expectations of how often it does.
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Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio... by Dylan16807 on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:05PM (#15121434)
"would have lived" with continued treatment isn't quite the right metric, because they'd be generally be withdrawing life support with or without taking the organs.
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Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio... by SamReidHughes on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:08PM (#15121445)
I mean recovered, released from hospital, is-not-a-vegetable.
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