By: nick spinelli
Of course there should be liability, and I worked Med Malpractice defense cases for decades.
View ArticleBy: Dredd
“Do you think that there should be liability in such cases?” Yes, if it is medically possible to detect the problem prior to the transplant.
View ArticleBy: rafflaw
This is an amazing case. This poor woman received damaged lungs from a smoker! I cannot imagine a more disgusting case of negligence on the part of a hospital, but to accept lungs from a smoker. I...
View ArticleBy: P Smith
I vaguely remember reading about a transplant case in the 1990s or 1980s, though I can’t find a link to cite it. A patient was desperately in need of a heart transplant. It was only when the patient...
View ArticleBy: Mike Spindell
As a heart transplant recipient I am uniquely qualified to comment. The timeframe for organ transplants is generally a very small window. Generally a matter of hours since the viability of organs...
View ArticleBy: mespo727272
“Do you think that there should be liability in such cases?” ************************** Make it a car with a bum transmission and a seller who knew about it, coupled with a buyer who didn’t and you’ll...
View ArticleBy: MASkeptic
You know if we would stop hobbling stemcell research we would’ve eventually have been able to just grow her some new lungs.
View ArticleBy: Woosty's still a Cat
I worked as a transplant RN and the only liability I could see is in lack of pre-transplant testing. And it would have to be in a breach of current testing standards. Every one of us has...
View ArticleBy: Justice Holmes
I am sorry Woosty but this is an egregious case. Your comment about all of us having cancer may be true at the cellar level but these lungs were already exposed to several triggers that would cause...
View ArticleBy: Otteray Scribe
They used the lung of a chronic smoker? Well, duh! Somebody wasn’t thinking.
View ArticleBy: Mike Spindell
My high speed internet cable service has been restored Nick, so I would like to comment further. Below I have a link where you can go to find out all the information you would want to know about Organ...
View ArticleBy: nick spinelli
MikeS, A smart attorney would hire you as an expert witness on this. Thanks for this superb comment. And thanks for showing you understood my ball bust. Some folks never understand the vast majority of...
View ArticleBy: BarkinDog
Dead lady’s husband is standing there signing the form to let her be an organ donor. First question: Was your dear wife a smoker? Went in dumb, come out dumb too, hustlin round Atlanta in their...
View ArticleBy: pete9999
if someone had asked miss wederell before the operation if she would accept a smokers lungs i wonder what her answer would have been. of course we can’t know the answer, just like we don’t know what...
View ArticleBy: Ethicist
I don’t know how Great Britain allocates organs, but in the US, the ultimate decision goes to the transplant surgeon as to whether he/she will accept. The hospital may set policy, but it comes down to...
View ArticleBy: BarkinDog
HumpinDog was talking about getting a boner transplant but we talked him out of it.
View ArticleBy: idealist707
MASskeptic. (Malmö allman sjukhus?) Try Googling Margerat Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, try pigoons. More complex that often thought. And example of where limitless competition and entrustment of society to...
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