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Originally Posted by fintstone
Sounds reasonable to me. Why use a rare liver transplant on someone who is a high risk instead of someone who is not? An admitted previous intravenous drug user who was still using marijuana?
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I hate to sound callous but I agree.
My uncle is in hospice right now, He is going to die soon, he has been denied a Liver even though his is shutting down. His entire life consisted of heavy drug use, he died from overdosing on two separate occasions and was revived only because the paramedics recognized his last name as the same as my dads.
He has Hepatitis C, diabetes and a host of other ailments, that preclude him from even getting on the liver transfer list.
I am sure his story could be spun in a fashion that would dictate compassion, but the bottom line is he abused the living hell out of his body for close to 50 years and it finally gave up. Now doctors are expected to save him? He couldn't be bothered to save himself.