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Yes, I imagine health turns for the worse pretty easily when you disclose state secrets. Ouch, stop poking my liver
posted by
Smittenheimer
on November 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM
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A place where one wonders whether that urban myth of the organ
harvester might actually have the ring of truth...
posted by
saul_relative
on November 20, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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As Administrator of the Hammons Heart Institute of Springfield, MO, my BIL used to now and then make a run to the airport with his ice chest to pick up a human heart for a transplant and whisk it off to the hospital for the surgery of one in need. He also had an ice chest that looked exactly like his heart transporter that was used for his food purposes. He tried to do a good job of keeping the two separated but finally had to get rid of the one for food.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 20, 2008 at 9:41 PM
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OMW! Any takers? Too funny! I am not suure I would want a prisioners body parts! Shelly
posted by
sam444
on November 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM
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Auslander is right and thanks for "correcting my correction" re: Strauss. I won't make that mistake again.
posted by
vogue
on November 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM
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Naut, this gives me a great creepy story idea...
What if John Doe gets a heart transplant donated by an executed serial killer. He recovers from surgery, but keeps having the urge to drag someone into the bushes and off them. Then he grabs some innocent and carries out his gruesome plan, but gets so excited about the whole thing he forgets to take his anti-rejection meds, and bam! The killer's heart finally stops.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 19, 2008 at 6:22 AM
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And that's only the tip of the Iceberg of what we don't know or don't want to know.
posted by
auslander
on November 19, 2008 at 5:38 AM
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Is the law of supply and demand... it was bound to happen and of course it would be more prevalent at the places where life is cheaper and moral value the lowest. Such a sad reality.
posted by
Sinome
on November 18, 2008 at 8:31 PM
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Nautikos
LOL Mr. Huan is looking a little wan then eh?
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 18, 2008 at 8:18 PM
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Organ harvesting from live donors had to happen. The wealthy and powerful
were always going to prey on the weak the vulnerable the desperate. But if my baby was dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by
Kabu
on November 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM
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Hmmmmm...I could use some cash.........
anybody need a kidney?...Oh, shit, I better keep 'em.
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on November 18, 2008 at 7:25 PM
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