Re: Organ Donations
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it also means when you are dying in the hospital...that they are less likely to try harder to save you --- bonus = they get your organs!!
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The doctor who would be in charge of saving your life would most likely be some sort of trauma or heart surgeon, ER doctor, oncologist, etc. The kind of doctor who would be helping patients in need of organ transplants would be someone like a nephrologist, hepatologist, cardiologist, etc. What reason would the 1st group of MDs have for valuing the 2nd group of MDs’ patients more than their own?
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Also realize that none of the above doctors get to decide who gets the organ. An Organ Procurement Organization will do a "match run" against the UNOS List of waiting recipients. Then a placement team goes to work for each transplantable organ and begins making calls. They call the transplant surgeon for each patient on the list (generated by UNOS), starting from the top, and offer the organ (they send a mountain of data about the organ too) to each one until one of the surgeons accepts it.
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