What secret do most industries hide from the public?
I'll let the public answer this, but this is someone else story from online to give you an idea.
From Anonymous
I used to work in the OR at a major University hospital. Most of the staff referred to the organ harvest personnel from organizations like “Gift of Life” as “The vultures”.
The nurses especially hated them. They would be working their asses to save a person's life while the vultures were making plans for that person’s organs.
I agreed with the nurses and other staff who thought the vultures were disgusting and repulsive. It really hit me as I witnessed the trauma team save a life one night. I watched them celebrate as the frustrated vultures balked and questioned the prognosis of the patient. Then the vultures began telling the surgeon about the girl who needed the patient's heart. The surgeon put them in there place and threatened to ban them from his OR if they ever acted like that again.
The other thing that I have witnessed multiple times was organs being harvested from “brain dead” people. They remove the organs while they are still alive and then leave them to die from no longer having those organs. I saw this happen a few times.
The first time I saw it was when they removed the liver and kidneys from a woman who had no detectable brain activity. When they finished they sewed her up and put her in a different room to let her die.
I couldn’t believe they just left her to die alone in empty OR. I waited there with her and talked my boss. She said they do that all the time, but it is against policy. She told me to wait there until a nurse showed up and she thanked me for doing the right thing.
I changed my organ donor status after that. If you are an organ donor, and you are in a life or death situation in the hospital, there will be people making plans for your organs and routing for your death, just outside the room you are fighting for your life in.
From Anonymous
I used to work in the OR at a major University hospital. Most of the staff referred to the organ harvest personnel from organizations like “Gift of Life” as “The vultures”.
The nurses especially hated them. They would be working their asses to save a person's life while the vultures were making plans for that person’s organs.
I agreed with the nurses and other staff who thought the vultures were disgusting and repulsive. It really hit me as I witnessed the trauma team save a life one night. I watched them celebrate as the frustrated vultures balked and questioned the prognosis of the patient. Then the vultures began telling the surgeon about the girl who needed the patient's heart. The surgeon put them in there place and threatened to ban them from his OR if they ever acted like that again.
The other thing that I have witnessed multiple times was organs being harvested from “brain dead” people. They remove the organs while they are still alive and then leave them to die from no longer having those organs. I saw this happen a few times.
The first time I saw it was when they removed the liver and kidneys from a woman who had no detectable brain activity. When they finished they sewed her up and put her in a different room to let her die.
I couldn’t believe they just left her to die alone in empty OR. I waited there with her and talked my boss. She said they do that all the time, but it is against policy. She told me to wait there until a nurse showed up and she thanked me for doing the right thing.
I changed my organ donor status after that. If you are an organ donor, and you are in a life or death situation in the hospital, there will be people making plans for your organs and routing for your death, just outside the room you are fighting for your life in.
