Is it true that if you are an organ donor the hospital wont try as hard to save you if you weren't?
no bull answers, the truth.
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I don't really understand, you seem to have put three sentences into one.
Basically, doctors will try to save everyone equally. The only person they aren't going to try their best on is an elderly person with no family left. And still, they will try to save the life but they won't be as enthusiastic or caring. They may even let students "practice" CPR on the person.
However, if you are an organ donor, REALIZE that the people who come to the hospital to retrieve your organs to take them to other hospitals can demand that you be kept on life support indefinitely, your body brain dead but kept alive on machines so that your organs may be harvested at a later time. So, because you want to do "the right thing", your family gets to grieve over your body, praying that you'll wake up, crying, mourning, day in and and day out, unable to bury your dead body, thinking there may be hope for you yet.
I speak from experience, I work in a hospital, I have been in the ER and in the "units" when people "coded", I've watched them bring people back and I've seen people die.
And I've seen a man in his 30s, brain dead, kept alive for three days so that his organs could be harvested. Day in and day out, his family was there. "Please wake up..." It was heartbreaking, knowing their son was dead yet not...
No way. Doctors must do everything in their power to sane a life. Its in their licence so yeah dont believe those conspiracy theories.
this is not true-in order to donate you have to be kept breathing & "alive" so to speak. Blood types need to be matched, organs need to be sustained as long as possible before being removed from your body because once out of the body they are viable only a short period of time which varies with each organ. In a lot of cases they don't know you're a donor until after they've worked on you.
Absolutely not.
Not at all. In fact, to donate your organs, your heart must still be beating and you must still be breathing (this may be a little misleading because it's actually machines doing it for you). A person donating organs is actually called a beating heart cadaver for this reason, your heart is still beating but you are definitely dead by current standards that define death as the irreversible cessation of brain function. Doctors are in the business of saving people, and they don't like it when a patient dies. Even if they've donated their organs. Also, death is not declared by a single person. So if your worried about some rogue doctor harvesting your organs because you don't have health insurance and it would be difficult to save you, relax. When you are declared dead, people make sure.
The answer IS "Bull!."
Doctors do have to take societal concerns into consideration, but the primary focus is always on the individual patient. No doctor with the slightest smattering of ethics would ever consider such a thing.
Leaving out moral questions altogether, organs have to be well perfused to be useful for transplant. Doing less that best would risk the organs meant to be harvested.
Another bit of paranoia and urban legend emenates from the south end of a northbound bull.
That is completely and utterly untrue. In fact, those who would make the "best" organ donors - the young and otherwise healthy- are those that doctors (and nurses, and everyone else taking care of the patient) will try the hardest to save.
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