🚀 go-pugleaf

In a previous article, someone resembling
mike.holloway@MBCF.STJUDE.ORG wrote:

>I have to wonder though whether the attitude of extreme caution toward
>organ procurement in the medical community is actually a concern for the
>public relations of organ donation or simply the path of least resistance for
>them personally.  Its not as though hospitals don't ever encounter
>controversy. Its not as though they're never sued.  Why not make some test cases?
>Why not, for just once, bring the focus of news media attention toward
>transplantation to something substantive?  Is there enough interest in
>their patients for the medical community to do it?

I think is is the same reason that my surgeon told me for six weeks
while I was waiting that "I was on the top of the list" even though he
knew it was bullshit; why he tells me now that the rejection I have is
nothing to worry about; why my cardiologist can find the time to talk
to me before my biopsy and after it if things are good, but doesn't
have a whole lot to say if it turns out to be questionable.  Those in
the medical profession don't like bringing bad news to people.  Who
can blame them?  It really sucks: "I'm sorry, your son/daughter/etc is
dead.  Can I have their organs?"  And even though it would never be
put like that, maybe thats how the individuals involved feel it SOUNDS.
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Howard Hartsfield 					howardh@freenet.fsu.edu
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