Yeah. In Kentucky a couple of months ago, a patient was being taken to have his organs harvested because he was “brain dead.” When his eyes started opening, the family was told that it didn’t mean anything. He woke up before they could give him the paralytic which would have rendered him unable to move or cry out, but he would have felt himself being butchered. THIS TIME it was averted.
After seeing this, I researched the topic, and reportedly, when people are told that the person is brain dead, they often don’t actually CHECK for brain waves. It is also either against the law or something that the person CANNOT be given anesthesia since they supposedly can’t feel anything. So THEY FEEL EVERYTHING while their organs are being harvested.
After discovering this, I went on
#VanderbiltUniversityMedicalCenter portal to revoke my
#advanceddirective to keep from being an
#organdonor . Not only would they not allow me to revoke it on the portal, I was given a phone number to do it. I called and left a voice mail and no one called me back. When I made a complaint to the
#BBB (
#BetterBusinessBureau ) about this and another issue about them, I got a phone call and was told that the number I was given was wrong. Then I got a message on the portal
#myhealth@vanderbilt.com that I could not revoke it but have to submit another one. This is against
#CMS #ConditionsOfPartcipation #AppendixA federal regulations for hospitals related to
#patientsrights . I have been a
#ComplianceOfficer for a hospital.
In the past four years, our rights and legal protections have become a joke.
@vanderbilthealth
#organharvesting #organdonation #patientbillofrights #violationofpatientrights #patientwakesupbeforeorgandonation #kentuckyorgandonor