Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio...
by SamReidHughes on Monday August 28, 2017 @04:08PM
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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
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"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.
Re:Charts that don’t seem quite right, organ donation editio...
by SamReidHughes on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:08PM
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I mean recovered, released from hospital, is-not-a-vegetable.