Heidi Klessig, MD - Health Care Civil Rights

HOSPITALS ARE USING ‘CIRCULATORY DEATH’ TO HARVEST ORGANS OF LIVING PEOPLE

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It is long past time for complete transparency about organ procurement practices, and for mandating fully informed consent when people register to become organ donors. “Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, […]

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THE BEST BRAIN TUMOR EVER

By Heidi Klessig, MD Originally published on Physicians For Compassionate Care Education Foundation “Stories” page. Republished here with permission. On the morning of our son’s sixth birthday, my husband woke up feeling dizzy. Very dizzy. So dizzy that he vomited every time he tried to sit up. At the emergency room, his symptoms didn’t improve

Author name: Heidi Klessig, MD

HOSPITALS ARE USING ‘CIRCULATORY DEATH’ TO HARVEST ORGANS OF LIVING PEOPLE

THE BEST BRAIN TUMOR EVER