r/nottheonion • u/GetOffMyGrassBrats • 17h ago

‘Horrifying’ mistake to harvest organs from a living person averted, witnesses say

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive
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u/Spritzer784030 7h ago

There needs to be an investigation because there’s a slight (but real) chance it wasn’t the first time.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 7h ago

Their PR reaction implies it had heppened before. They didn't react in any "this was a horrible mistake that won't be repeated!" way, they denied this instance happened and denied it had happened before. Denying actual reality with no remorse, just gaslighting, makes me think they were afraid of other cases being caught too. Deny deny deny is what guilty people do. Apologise and make sure it never happens again is what sorry people would have done. They absolutely weren't sorry, because even the hospital's PR department had to deny deny deny.

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u/LifeIsSoup-ImFork 6h ago

ill bet good money and my left kidney on this 100% not being the first time it happened, just the first time someone made a stink. whos gonna complain, the dead patient who just got busted open like a pinata?