Its what we see and expect at the highest levels of our banking, corporate and governmental system lately. But now, Its taking an amazingly caring subject at a societal level, of keeping others alive, and turning it into a system of killing to do so, which is inhumane, and morally and ethically reprehensible. Just check below who the head of this organization is. The Director is Michael Goldstein, and in the court documents he was the one pressuring these doctors to declare these patients braindead. (New Yorkers, pay attention here. Make sure your doctor is not easily pressured and that you trust him)
This lawsuit is being filed by a man of integrity, ex-airforce, who was fired over protesting this system. What a courageous man!!! You can see he is suffering and yet he did the right thing and in the morning can look himself in the eye when he shaves knowing he did the right thing and may well have saved lives by his sacrifice.
And what about the doctors who succumb to that pressure? Are they also dual citizens? I don't know, but this needs to see the light of day and it should be researched at other such facilities, since these people hold the power of life and death over those that trusted them and signed up, not realizing they are possibly signing up for being murdered, yes, that is what that is, its murder, not just some after thought or accident. And the Director doing the pressuring is as guilty as the doctor for his acts and should pay for them. I suspect he gets a pretty healthy salary.
And what about the doctors who succumb to that pressure? Are they also dual citizens? I don't know, but this needs to see the light of day and it should be researched at other such facilities, since these people hold the power of life and death over those that trusted them and signed up, not realizing they are possibly signing up for being murdered, yes, that is what that is, its murder, not just some after thought or accident. And the Director doing the pressuring is as guilty as the doctor for his acts and should pay for them. I suspect he gets a pretty healthy salary.
This is an outrage!!!! The horrors they do in Israel are filtering over to this country at every level now. Not just at the top. We better wake up before the next assault is bull dozing our homes and pedophiling our children, like they do to the Pals. Sorry, but this is truly getting out of hand at a level I had not ever seen before in my very long life. I think phone calls to this organization is in order to let them know we are watching and going to follow this case.
Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare brain dead: suit
by Poor Richards Blog, Sept 2012
VN: New York hospitals are routinely "harvesting" body parts from patients before they're even dead, a lawsuit is claiming.
Photo obtained from NY Organ Donor Network site
The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested — and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged yesterday.
The federally funded nonprofit used a “quota” system, and leaned heavily on the next of kin to sign consent forms when patients were not registered as organ donors, the suit charged.
“They’re playing God,” said plaintiff Patrick McMahon, 50, an Air Force combat veteran and nurse practitioner who claims he was fired as a transplant coordinator after just four months for protesting the practice.
Dennis Clark
Patrick McMahon
In September 2011, a 19-year-old man injured in a car wreck was admitted to Nassau University Medical Center. He was still trying to breathe and showed signs of brain activity, the suit charged.
But doctors declared him brain dead under pressure from donor-network officials, including Director Michael Goldstein, who allegedly said during
The patient’s family consented to have the organs harvested.
“I have been in Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan in combat. I worked on massive brain injuries, trauma, gunshot wounds, IEDs. I have seen worse cases than this and the victims recover,” McMahon told The Post.
That same month, a woman was admitted to St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx still showing signs of life, the suit said.
She had a kidney transplant earlier in life and network officials used that to pressure her daughter into giving consent.
“They say to her, ‘If you give us permission we will use your mother’s organs and we will help many, many people who need them,’ ” he said.
McMahon’s objections were ignored by a neurologist, who declared her brain dead — and her organs were harvested, according to the suit. McMahon even claims he tried to get a second opinion.
A month later, a man was admitted to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, again showing brain activity, the suit said. McMahon claims his protests were again blown off by hospital and donor-network staff, and the man was declared brain dead and his organs harvested.
In November 2011, a woman admitted to Staten Island University Hospital after a drug overdose was declared brain dead and her organs were about to be harvested when McMahon noticed that she was being given “a paralyzing anesthetic” because her body was still jerking.
When he objected, another network employee told hospital personnel McMahon was “an untrained troublemaker with a history of raising frivolous issues and questions,” the suit charged.
“I had a reputation for raising a red flag,” he said.
In order to harvest organs, the network needs a “Note” — an official declaration by a hospital that a patient is brain dead — and consent from next of kin.
The network hired
The suit said that on Nov. 4, McMahon told Helen Irving, president and CEO of the network, “one in five patients declared brain dead show signs of brain activity at the time the Note is issued.”
Irving, the suit said, replied: “This is how things are done.”
Network spokeswoman Julia Rivera said she hadn’t seen the suit, but noted that only doctors can declare a patient brain dead.
She called McMahon’s claims of a quota system “ridiculous. There are no quotas.”
A Staten Island University Hospital spokeswoman declined comment. Reps for the other three hospitals could not immediately be reached.
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks
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