Parts Is Parts, I Guess
But I somehow can’t reconcile this story with the creed of “First, do no harm”
LONDON, England (CNN) — A leading UK hospital has defended its practice of using organs donated by smokers after the death of a soldier who received the cancerous lungs of a heavy smoker.
Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, died at his home in 2008, less than a year after receiving a transplant that was supposed to save his life at Papworth Hospital — the UK’s largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital, in Cambridgeshire, east England.
Papworth Hospital released a statement saying using donor lungs from smokers was not “unusual.”
The statement added that the hospital had no option but to use lungs from smokers as “the number of lung transplants carried out would have been significantly lower,” if they didn’t.
Words fail at that last paragraph.
This is Nationalized Health Care for you.
Nanny State | Mr. Bingley | 
October 13, 2009 7:22 am
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An example of bureaucracy at its worse. Which is where we will go if those idiots in Congress succeed in ramming their crap sandwich down our throats.
But they’ll point to the statistics and say “Look, we’ve done more transplants now! Things are better!”
Even The Onion couldn’t make up something this outlandish. God help the Brits.
“the number of lung transplants carried out would have been significantly lower,” if they didn’t.
Given the outcome of this case that may be for the best.
There’s probably a very stiff penalty for installing defective used parts in a motor car in England, but not in humans, I guess.
You know, having that military chip on my shoulder, I wonder if service members get the crappy bits more than any other lucky British citizens?