A Russian boy travels to Oklahoma for a risky surgery that unfortunately left him brain dead. The father lashes out at the hospital:
Kurbanov, speaking through a translator, said the doctor and hospital were more interested in promoting themselves than properly caring for his son.The news story amounted to a “TV commercial” that “talked about the hospital and the doctor and that even people from Russia came to them to find miracles,” Kurbanov said bitterly.
“There is no support at St. Anthony; there must be some other hidden agenda the doctors pursue,” said the father, who refuses to end life support for his son.
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You feel bad for the family. A few of the most satisfying cases I had as a resident were young kids from other country treated in our facility for free. They had surgeries done that hardly any other country in the world would do especially at no cost. I hope something like this doesn’t diminish hospitals from doing these cases. One of them was a case of bladder extrophy. 16 hours of surgery with Ortho and Urology all completely donated by everybody.
From the Foxnews.com article on this story:
“Kurbanov said he will keep vigil, even though doctors say there is no chance for recovery and have asked to harvest the boy’s organs for transplants. Kurbanov does not trust them, or the medical charts written in a language he doesn’t understand.”
This is just sick. Vultures circling the body in hopes of taking the organs to line the pockets of the transplant team members.
~Criminallopath~
This place just wouldn’t be any fun without the daily paranoid rant. Thanks for making my day Kevin!
“This is just sick. Vultures circling the body in hopes of taking the organs to line the pockets of the transplant team members.”
No good deed goes unpunished. And those disgusting, purile patients are watching the clock waiting for organs such as these, shame on them! It is a shame that a brain transplant is not possible. Then again this poor kid would only be #2 on the list for such a procedure!
“This is just sick. Vultures circling the body in hopes of taking the organs to line the pockets of the transplant team members.”
You forget there are people waiting to receive those organs too.
Seriously dude you go way too far with the hyperbole.
It must be frustrating to be a parent unable to communicate with the health care team. Translators, even when easily available, are a poor medium for communication. I have only rarely met translators who both translated rapidly (on the fly as each speaker would speak) and in a manner where I trusted that it was my words and the patient’s words going back and forth rather than the translator’s ‘interpretation’ of what each party was saying.
They were told by their own docs at home that there was a 30 % mortality; Russian roulette with 2 bullets at best it was. There’s no point in the family acting surprised or assuming negligence when the odds of this particular outcome are so high.
“Vultures circling the body in hopes of taking the organs to line the pockets of the transplant team members.”
That is really a cold, uncalled for statement. Those “vultures” are trying to save several lives with those organs.
Given the rash of recent press about the troubled nature of a number of our domestic transplant programs, my comments are fully called for. This harkens back to the prior post and subsequent discussion about actually removing government interference in the organ procurement process. If one wishes to have a system in which motivation is truly not a question then take the money out of it for everyone involved. This a priori assumption of “good will” and “good dead” is exactly the form and type of system that is ripe for having problems. Objective evaluation is lost when we loose our ability or just as importantly our desire to question the system because of our assumptions.
Let us establish an important and underlying point here. The organs do not in any way, shape or form belong to the transplant team nor do they belong to any patient that is waiting on the transplant list. The organs are the sole property of the patient and given the current state of the patient, the disbursement of said organs is in the sole hands of the father of the patient.
~Crimanallopath~
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