A Kentucky Man Was Declared Brain Dead, Became Conscious as Doctors Were Going to Harvest His Organs
October 18th, 2024Via: WKYT:
TJ was then taken into organ retrieval surgery.
“About an hour into it, the doctor came out and got us. He said he wasn’t ready. He woke up. But we also hadn’t been told during his heart catheterization that morning, he woke up then. If we had known that, then clearly we would have known he wasn’t brain dead,” Rhorer said.
Rhorer was told to take TJ home and make him comfortable. She was told he wouldn’t live long. Rhorer’s been caring for her brother for three years now.
“He made several attempts to say, ‘Hey, I’m here.’ But it was kind of ignored. They finally stopped the procedure because he was showing too many signs of life,” Rhorer said.
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“So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, ‘We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ ” Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”
This also reveals that they transplant damaged organs from drug abusers. I know of a man who received a heart from a convict. He accepted it because the drs told him he was in such bad shape that he dare not wait for a better one to become available. He died shortly afterward. This was at Mass. General in Boston.