http://www.impactlab.com/2008/05/13/drug-war-horror-stories/
In Seattle, a fifty-six-year old man died last Thursday after being
refused a liver transplant because he had followed his doctor=92s
recommendation to use marijuana to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C.
=46rom the Associated Press story:
His death came a week after a doctor told him a University of
Wa****ngton Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the
liver transplant list.
The team had previously told him it would not consider placing him on
the list until he completed a 60-day drug-treatment class=85
The Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees
the nation=92s transplant system, leaves it to individual hospitals to
develop criteria for transplant candidates.
At some, people who use =93illicit substances=94-including medical
marijuana, even in the dozen states that allow it-are automatically
rejected.
At others, patients are given a chance to reapply if they stay clean
for six months.
The cruelty and stupidity of this beggars belief. This patient did not
need =93drug treatment.=94
He was already undergoing drug treatment.
Nor did he need to get =93clean.=94
He was already clean.
It=92s the drug war that=92s dirty. (H/t: John Leone.)
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Murphy's law ?
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Liver transplant patient set alight during surgery sues doctors and
hospital
VANCOUVER =97 A Vernon, B.C., man is suing his doctors, Vancouver
General
Hospital and the local health authority after a heart-stopping liver
transplant during which he was set aflame.
During the transplant surgery in February 2006, Robbin Reeves's heart
stopped and doctors performed an open cardiac massage.
Reeves's lawsuit claims doctors tore one of the chambers of his heart
and, in the rush to prepare for the emergency surgery, alcohol on his
neck and shoulder caught fire, leaving him with serious burns.
Six months after the surgery doctors removed a broken sternal wire
from
his chest and then, in July 2006, he found out the first liver
transplant failed and he had another transplant surgery last year.
Reeves's B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit claims the defendants failed to
meet
a reasonable standard of care and he's claiming unspecified damages
for
negligence and costs.
No statement of defence has yet been filed.
Who loves ya.
Tom
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