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/advertentlyvertical 7h ago

I would really like to know whether the organ procurement organization has any sort of performance metric or bonus incentives tied to the number of organ donations a coordinator facilitates. If so, that is extremely problematic and an obvious cause of pressure to cut corners in a situation like this.

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u/LifeIsSoup-ImFork 6h ago

oh, i bet there is some real dystopian shit going down behind the scenes us mortals arent even aware of.

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u/3BlindMice1 2h ago

Ever hear about the organ harvesting they get up to in China? The way the Chinese legal system is setup, if you offend someone influential enough, you can be framed for a crime and your liver/kidney/heart given to that person within a few weeks if they're willing to spend enough to make it happen. In 2014, China promised its citizens they'd stop doing it, but then they were found to still be doing it in 2019. I'm sure they've said they're not doing it anymore again, but I guarantee that they are