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Former defensive back for the Alabama Crimson Tide, Terrance Howard, died at Atrium Hospital in North Carolina on August 1st after he was tragically struck by a car on I-85 in North Carolina.
News One reported after being struck by a car, Howard suffered a traumatic brain injury and was placed on life support.
Howard’s parents, in a series of videos uploaded to Facebook, have expressed their outrage over Howard’s care at Atrium Hospital and have claimed the hospital attempted to “kill” their son in an organ harvesting scheme.
Howard’s father, Anthony Allen, claimed the hospital “put something in Terrance’s IV to kill him.”
The former football star’s mother, in a video, shared, “They’re trying to kill my son because they want his organs.” more
I totally believe a hospital would do something like that! Especially in today’s World.
The hospital basically admitted guilt. No one who isn’t guilty would make a statement like this.
In response, Atrium Health stated, “As you know, federal privacy laws are very strict and do not permit us to address specific questions. What we can tell you unequivocally is that our medical professionals are among the best in the nation and take every reasonable measure to protect and preserve the life and health of those in our care at all times.”
The hospital added, “We extend our deepest sympathies in every tragic situation facing patients and their family members as they struggle with their personal circumstances. We also make it our practice to provide honest assessments about each patient’s health when communicating with family members and help them understand and explore appropriate care options for their loved ones.”
Like Cate above, I have no problem thinking a mOdErN hospital would do this, and even less because of the way I saw them kill my wife’s aunt and some other hospice fun Im not going into now.
Any institution thats willing to surgically mangle disturbed children demonstrably has no respect for human life, after all.
…but Im not sure how you can prove/disprove what someone puts in an IV, especially since you can kill with air that will be absorbed long before the autopsy.
Your range of kill drugs is rather limited anyway, IF your goal is saleable organs. What kills the person kills their organs too, after all, even if its simple anoxia. Not sure you’d have a good transplant outcome with a liver filled with Fentanyl anyway.
Of course, one way to allay transplant fears is to deny transplant, loudly and up front. The only way they have around that is a living will, which isnt usually something college kids trouble themselves about.
Lots of atheletes have enlarged hearts anyway, a consequence of rigorous training regimes. This kid was hit by a car too, so while the most concerning damage is obviouly brain damage, the rest of your organs are in for a bruising too, depending on what hits what and how hard. An outwardly healthy decerebated person may be a good source of organs, but not always.
Also, they legally cant “sell” the organs for profit. They can charge for surgery and such, but not for the spare parts, not even the blood. So unless there’s some other shady thing being called out here, it doesnt seem like, by doctor standards, it would be that profitable.
Hospitals can be evil, but mourning people also go through an anger stage. I dont have enough information here to tell me which this is.
Hospital [🧛♂️]: Those organs aren’t gonna harvest themselves
Mortality rate of organ donors vs general critical care population? Just curious.
The family isn’t obligated, morally or legally, to donate their son’s organs. If they think the hospital wants his organs, they can tell the hospital team that he will not be a donor. Period. And back it up with legal paperwork if they need to. If the family is looking to file a lawsuit, they better have some actual evidence. The hospitals do encourage organ donation, but they can’t force it.
Having had a lot of experience with the transplant system and its processes, I’d need verified evidence because if they’re killing on a mass scale for organs, the transplant stats would be much better than they are and the people dying on the waiting list would be much lower.
What I know is that there are so many people waiting for all kinds of transplants that they now allow organs from “high risk” donors. As long as the donor didn’t have AIDS, and you consent to receiving the organ, they’ll use it. I took a high-risk kidney rather than die waiting for a “clean” one.
My transplant was June 11, 2020 after years on dialysis. Some of my family had had living donors (my kidney disease is a family curse), but they ran out by the time I came along. My donor (already dead, I swear) had done drugs, been to prison, etc., and had hepatitis-c. Luckily, a hep-c cure had been created in the meantime, so I took the kidney, got the hep-c, and just added that drug to the fistful of others I took daily. After four ensuing hospital stays for various viruses related to the transplant, I was so medically savvy I could administer my own IV medication at home through a port in my arm. But I’m here, alive and spending time with my family and grateful to that donor and his family for every minute of it.
So I’m all for more VOLUNTARY donors, but I draw the line at hospitals being the modern version of “resurrection men”. It just doesn’t work like that.
I want to add that no one who’s had a cadaver (as opposed to living donor) transplant is unaware that their extended life is due to someone else’s death and another family’s pain at their loss. We don’t take it for granted.
Sorry, that was me. ^^
Modern hospitals? One of my local hospitals performed human radiation experiments on patients without their knowledge or consent in the 1940s. There were 3 other hospitals in the US that were also involved.
SNS: “ Also, they legally cant “sell” the organs for profit. ”
Unless it’s planned Parenthood selling parts from the babies they killed.
Anyone remember the movie COMA? Not a recent movie or a recent phenomenon.
Health care has always harbored some ghouls and I’m not discounting the possibility that they seriously underestimated this family.
At one time I would have dismissed this as the folly of a grieving family.
After the covid nightmare with hospitals telling us how busy they were with patients, not so sure.
They weren’t so busy they didn’t see the folly in dismissing workers who refused the clot shot.
They didn’t see the silly optics of dancing nurses doing finely choreographed and practiced dance routines.
They were determined to put out propaganda verses the truth, I’m no longer sure about the medical profession and the Hippocratic Oath.
Great account well told, Merry Poppet. Thanks!
Most of the doctors and nurses I have met were wonderful. That said, pre-covid, I had accompanied three family members through the hospital system over the years and have been appalled at some of the stupidity and callousness of a few. That taught me I would never want to be alone in a hospital nor would I leave a loved one at the mercy of whomever is on shift.
During covid, I believe I saw a doctor cross the line and place orders she knew would be fatal. So, I say this story is plausible and that our loss of trust in the medical profession is just as tragic as the loss of life from covid.