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- From: bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray)
- Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: interesting [and scary] blurb...
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 02:31:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Reply-To: bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray)
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- In a previous article, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) says:
-
- >In article <PA146008.580.725561366@utkvm1.utk.edu> PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal) writes:
- >: Or do you *really* think all it would take is writing "I'm not an
- >:organ donor" on a piece of paper and carrying it around with you? Given the
- >:legislative impulse of our government, *I'm* not all that confident that any
- >:group who wants to lay claim to *my* body parts will stop with round one.
- >
- >Don't any of these people who are advocating carry active donation-refusal
- >cards worry that if they get in an accident themselves that some doctor
- >will say 'well, this bastard isn't going to donate his organs, why should
- >I try too hard to save him?' [Note I'm talking about emergency care in
- >motorbike accidents etc; separate question from whether people who refuse
- >to donate organs would be allowed to receive them]
- >
- >G
- >
- I don't worry about this too much, since the doctor who is taking care of the
- accident victim is almost never the one who gets to use the donated organ.
- On those rare occasions when that is the case, a third doctor, not involved
- in either case, is required to review the potential donor's condition and
- certify that he is really dead and it is okay to proceed.
-
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- The opinions expressed by the author are insightful, intelligent and very
- carefully thought out. It is therefore unlikely that they are shared by the
- University of Iowa or Case Western Reserve University.
-