"Brain dead" man wakes up as surgeons prepare to harvest his organs

It would be very interesting to know if there are any statistical tilts that can be found in the occurrence of ‘but not that fresh’ incidents.

Absolutely not trivial to determine whether someone is neurologically irrecoverable without just waiting until all the organs are nonviable, so some level of error is to be expected; but I’d be curious to know if it’s roughly evenly distributed; if certain regions or types of hospitals have higher or lower rates; do vehicle accident cases(and do drivers get handled differently than passengers) get handled differently from ODs; that sort of thing.

I’d assume that nobody is just running a “if he loved drugs so much just sedate him and call it good” operation; but it wouldn’t be totally surprising if people are bad at running what are supposed to be uniform criteria uniformly on both obviously innocent passengers and at-fault drivers if there’s any room for uncertainty or judgement calls.

In this case; it sounds like the ‘supervisor’ might not go over well if that particular call was recorded for quality assurance purposes; seems like a really bad look to be yelling at one of your minions when everyone surgically qualified is noping out hard and you are offsite somewhere without eyes on anything but the numbers.

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