• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There’s zero chance this guy’s heart was transplanted. Heart donations require minimal warm ischemic time. No way they found him dead and decided to steal his heart, and if they forcibly removed his heart for transplant, the surgical signs would make that obvious.

    China gets away with it because it’s a state sanctioned program. The evidence is destroyed and families get back ashes.

    It’s far more likely they did an autopsy and then lost or kept the heart for some other reason. Maybe he was stabbed in the heart and they want to cover it up. If I had to guess, I’d say they were just grossly negligent and lost it. They returned the body in a state of decomposition. That’s egregious enough without imagining a shady cabal of prison heart transplant doctors.

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      Maybe if you would actually read the article

       In addition to prison officials, the lawsuit names the UAB Health System as defendants. The suit claims UAB’s School of Medicine obtained Dotson’s heart, and details a 2018 incident where medical students “noticed that a disproportionate number of the specimens they encountered during their medical training originated from individuals who had died in prison custody within the Alabama Department of Corrections.”

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        Does that mean that’s what actually happened or is that just what the family is accusing them of in the suit

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          Well, I suspect they have some evidence if they are naming the institution in the lawsuit.

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        Still not a transplanted organ. That would fall under the “kept it for someother reason” category I mentioned.

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          No but the market for body parts to be used for research or education is bery underregulated in the US. They could be selling organs just not for transplants. John Oliver just did an episode on it actually.