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ReidRansom posted:Right, well it was his criminal behavior before the transplant that doctors were considering. It really wasn't. It was about compliance and likely success of the operation. You don't just stick a heart in someone, sew them up and send them on their way. They need medication, followups, there's restrictions on behavior. If you're a minor, you need a guardian or caretaker who can bring you to appointments. I mean, if you're fifteen and you're already wearing an ankle monitor, it isn't exactly a good sign, but the family's spokesman back in 2013 claiming the hospital refused him 'because of his grades' and stuff was full of poo poo. I don't really blame the family - if your child was made ineligible, going to the media is a small price to pay to try and pressure the hospital - but that doesn't mean the hospital made the wrong call. It's also easy to talk about how he was a boy whose parents loved him and all this other stuff, because it is easier to sympathize with a face in a story, versus the people we don't know who were also in need of a heart. It is a weird business, trying to evaluate this sort of thing. It's easier to say 'he deserved a chance' than to say 'he deserved less of a chance than an unknown someone else who deserved a chance' because we don't know. basically, we should have opt out organ donation instead of opt in, write your congressman or something, scarcity sucks Ambivalent fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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