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Patient Wakes Up as Doctors Get Ready to Remove Organs

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So drug overdoses can mimic brain death and how can we be assured that the doctors did all the necessary tests before drawing conclusions.
It was exactly midnight when Colleen Burns eerily opened her eyes and looked at the operating lights above her, shocking doctors who believed she was dead and were about to remove her organs and donate them to patients on the transplant waiting list. The Syracuse Post-Standard unearthed a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that chronicled the series of errors that led to the near-organ removal on a living patient at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2009.
"The patient did not suffer a cardiopulmonary arrest (as documented) and did not have irreversible brain damage," the HHS report concluded. "The patient did not meet criteria for withdrawal of care."
Patient Wakes Up Right Before Doctors Remove Organs - ABC News
 
Just another reason I'm not an organ donor.
 
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