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“Based on this meeting and discussion by our team, the decision was made that Anthony is currently not a transplant candidate due to having a history of noncompliance, which is one of our center’s contraindications to listing for heart transplant,” the hospital said in a letter to Stokes’ family.
If you have a history of not doing what is needed to survive, we aren't wasting our limited supplies of hearts on you.
I agree that they have a a very valid concern. There's probably TONS of medications before/during/and after a transplant that are required.
That's what the family says, but it can't be true. If you read what the clinic said, he fails to show up for appts., take meds, etc. They don't want to waste the organ on someone who isn't going to comply with the rules. If you simply believe what the parents are saying, at least dig up some supporting info because there is none, it's just a he said she said things with the ONLY supporting info being what the clinic said.
Perhaps a federal judge will intervene again and put an injunction on this transplant qualification.
Butbutbut....he's black! Just because he violates many of the criteria that the transplant committe uses to determine viable candidates is meaningless. I mean....he's black!
Or white, as in the case of the 10 year old who wanted adult lungs and got them twice within 3 days!
Then he has that option. He just doesn't get on the list. Not rocket science here.
Weren't you in support of the white girl getting on the adult transplant list (via lawsuit) even though past experience has shown poor outcomes when a child get adult lungs that have been "scaled down?"
Pelosi introduced legislation today to create a new "Head Heart" program to help future underprivileged heart patients successful.
Modeled after the ubiquitous Head Start programs, Head Heart is expected to save at least five lives over the next two decades at a cost of only $10 billion per year.
Pelosi introduced legislation today to create a new "Head Heart" program to help future underprivileged heart patients successful.
Modeled after the ubiquitous Head Start programs, Head Heart is expected to save at least five lives over the next two decades at a cost of only $10 billion per year.
That ten year old girl whose family sued for adult lungs; got two double lung transplants within three days, has been on a breathing machine ever since, will be having her 5th surgery tomorrow, must be fed through an opening in her small intestine, and most likely won't live for another year. What do you think her medical bills are adding up to?
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