At the moment organ donors carry an opt-in card. In future it is proposed that people would have had to have opted out.
This is quite worrying to me as I can see doubts creeping in as to whether doctors did enough to save a dying patient. There could be a conflict of interest here. This is an extreme example, but what for instance if a doctor's family member required an organ within a few hours to survive and there was a perfect potential donor organ in a patient in intensive care in the same hospital. Would that doctor do everything to save that patient ?
Yet again, as in declassification of cannibis, I don't think that this policy has been thought through properly .
This is quite worrying to me as I can see doubts creeping in as to whether doctors did enough to save a dying patient. There could be a conflict of interest here. This is an extreme example, but what for instance if a doctor's family member required an organ within a few hours to survive and there was a perfect potential donor organ in a patient in intensive care in the same hospital. Would that doctor do everything to save that patient ?
Yet again, as in declassification of cannibis, I don't think that this policy has been thought through properly .
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