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re: Organ donation : could you donate your child’s organs.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 6:41 pm to Tempratt
Posted on 8/22/26 at 6:41 pm to Tempratt
My mom had passed away at like 6-7 am the organ harvest company rep comes by at 2:30 pm my physician friend was had stopped by and we discussed what the hell is viable after 6-7 hrs ?? He said they bill Medicare for the harvest of non viable organs.
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Posted on 8/22/26 at 6:57 pm to Cracker
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we discussed what the hell is viable after 6-7 hrs
Valves, tendons, bone, corneas, and skin would likely all have still been viable.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:10 pm to Tempratt
quote:This is what I call "aggressive ignorance". Sadly, the dumber a person is, the more confident they become. I'm almost jealous. Must be nice to be so blissfully stupid.
My daughter is 16 and I told her that she will not have that on her license. Not up for debate.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:16 pm to Tempratt
If my child was gone yes I could
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:18 pm to Obtuse1
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You can forget that then. UNOS makes the matching decisions, and they are anonymous. The recipient hospital will have chosen the transplant recipient through their transplant selection committee, AKA God committee.
frick that. If I can’t decide who gets what, my child gets buried whole. Take your God committee and shove it up your arse. I decide. Not you.
Not gonna have some alcoholic get a kidney or liver.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:20 pm to Tempratt
My dad was help to help improve many untold lives based on his donations.
I trust that doctors have a top priority to do no harm.
I trust that doctors have a top priority to do no harm.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:26 pm to Tempratt
My sister did it. It was really meaningful to her to know that someone else could live bc of her daughter. I think that helped her a lot
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:33 pm to Handsome Pete
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While performing transplants may be profitable, harvesting organs is not. The harvested organ is unlikely to be transplanted into a patient at the same hospital, normally they're spread around the state or country.
There has to be some cost involved in harvesting organs. How does that get paid for and to whom? (I genuinely don't know.)
Posted on 8/22/26 at 7:47 pm to Tempratt
I don’t know if this fits here. I’ll just tell you what happened.
This is vastly condensed. I was working at a hospital in southern Mississippi. I worked ER and ICU. I was in ICU that night. I heard our chopper take off. The doc in the ER walked over and asked about our census and my availability. I was cleared to go to ER.
Our little town is right next to the interstate so we see a lot of bad wrecks.
The chopper landed and brought a child in. More were coming by ambulance. Apparently, multiple rollovers and no seatbelts. They popped out like popcorn.
We hooked everything up. Nothing. Shocked X 3 faint irregular heartbeat. So many bones broken. Very hard to ever determine a face. Brain visible. No brain activity.
But. Heartbeat.
Turns out dad had the kids. Don’t know where mom was but ER doc reached her. She made him an organ donor.
They showed up quick and he became their patient. They treated him with kindness, pity, and love.
I know this because he was my patient. And I’ll never forget it.
This is vastly condensed. I was working at a hospital in southern Mississippi. I worked ER and ICU. I was in ICU that night. I heard our chopper take off. The doc in the ER walked over and asked about our census and my availability. I was cleared to go to ER.
Our little town is right next to the interstate so we see a lot of bad wrecks.
The chopper landed and brought a child in. More were coming by ambulance. Apparently, multiple rollovers and no seatbelts. They popped out like popcorn.
We hooked everything up. Nothing. Shocked X 3 faint irregular heartbeat. So many bones broken. Very hard to ever determine a face. Brain visible. No brain activity.
But. Heartbeat.
Turns out dad had the kids. Don’t know where mom was but ER doc reached her. She made him an organ donor.
They showed up quick and he became their patient. They treated him with kindness, pity, and love.
I know this because he was my patient. And I’ll never forget it.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:38 pm to shutterspeed
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There has to be some cost involved in harvesting organs. How does that get paid for and to whom? (I genuinely don't know.)
A local procurement organization pays the costs of recovery. They then bill the transplant hospital/recipient's insurance.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 8:52 pm to mceuph
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I am the recipient of a “young kidney” (surgeon’s words). I volunteer for Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency and spoken to a mother who suffered the unexpected death of her teenage son.
LOPA does great work. Thanks for what yall do.
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