hospital kept vegetative patient on life support to boost survival rates

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“It’s Very Unethical”: Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates

Darryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. But, hardly consulting his family, doctors kept him alive for a year to avoid federal scrutiny.

www.propublica.org

 

[woxihuanni]

These doctors are the scum of the earth. Licensed frauds and torturers.

 

[lifeisbutadream]

They lock good people up for mercy killing or even assisting a beloved person with a terrible incurable disease to ctb, but those doctors and hospital administrators, and the govmt. agencies that make heartless rules for them, they are the evil ones!

 

[Exitforme]

Cases like these are absolutely despicable. Most doctors don't really care about patients' quality of life. It's all about keeping humans alive regardless if they will endure unthinkable pain and suffering.

Sometimes death is a better fate than life and I think it will take a long time for society as a whole to learn to accept this.

 

[Rachel74]

I read this, bloody disgusting!

 

[c824767]

tens of thousands of people in the "civilized" world are braindead but not heart/lung dead. The power of capitalism

 

[TowerUpright]

(Sarcasm)
But, don't you see?? If you stop the heart and lungs of a braindead person, you're KILLING them!!!
(/Sarcasm)

 

[Moonicide]

This breaks my heart... So disgusting and so terrible.

 

[Jumper]

“It’s Very Unethical”: Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates

Darryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. But, hardly consulting his family, doctors kept him alive for a year to avoid federal scrutiny.

www.propublica.org

This was well reported...