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Re: Avoiding the most pertinent fact to increase moralizing
by kcperlas

I'm curious to know also about families refusing organ donation and then the patient recovers. Has there been case studies, reports, or credible journal articles covered this? I used to work in a hospital and do not remember doctors hoovering like vultures over patients for their organs. Remember the Hippocratic oath? Where I worked one of the things that's given to all patients when they're admitted is a form stating whether or not you want to be resuscitated. I've worked in medical/surgical, telemetry (heart), and oncology (cancer) units.

For the most part doctors are there to treat their patients. They do not look for ways to endanger them or harvest organs. Do you think these doctors get a cut of the more organs their patients donate?

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