[ffujdefvjg]

> Dr. Robert Cannon, a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, described a similar incident during the congressional hearing where Martin’s letter was disclosed. It happened at a hospital outside of Alabama.

> “We actually were in the operating room. We had actually opened the patient and were in the process of sort of preparing their organs, at which point the ventilator triggered and so the anesthesiologist at the head of the table spoke up and said, ‘Hey, I think this patient might have just breathed,’” Cannon later told NPR in an interview. “If the patient breathes, that means they’re not brain dead.”

> Nevertheless, a representative from the OPO wanted to proceed anyway, Cannon says. He refused.

> “We were kind of shocked that an OPO person would have so little knowledge about what brain death means that they would say, ‘Oh, you should just go ahead.’ And we thought, ‘No. We’re not going to take any risk that we murder a patient.’ Because that’s what it would be if that patient was alive.”

OPO should be charged with attempted homicide.

[g-b-r]

Everyone should, but instead they're worried of not scaring other people?

The way you reassure them is by investigating every case extensively, punishing adequately those who tried to push through, and fixing the faults of the protocol

[squidgedcricket]

What do you mean by everyone? The MDs sound fine, as soon as a breath is seen they drop the scalpel and refuse to murder anyone.

[soneil]

> When she asks TJ about what happened, she says he says: “Why me?”

That's the line that turned my stomach. I think that's where it really sank in just how not-dead they're talking about here.

[pas]

no journalist talked to Mr Hoover.

and of course his sister is amazing at interpreting someone who has trouble talking, walking, and ... well, with probably all the things, considering that it's extremely likely that he has serious brain damage.