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June 13, 2008
Yet Another Downside to Socialized Medicine
Under socialized medicine, the state helps itself to more than just your money:
France may have to reconsider its medical definition of death after a heart-attack victim came alive in the operating theatre as doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant.
The patient, whose identity has not been revealed, recovered after a long period in intensive care and is now able to walk and talk.
The 45-year-old man owes his life to the fact that surgeons authorised to remove organs for transplant operations were not immediately available. Under experimental rules adopted in France last year, to make more organ transplants possible, the man had already reached the point where he could be officially regarded as dead.
The important thing to remember, after Dems have managed to impose socialized medicine over here, is that if you check into a hospital and the state harvests your organs even before it's managed to kill you, it's all for the greater good. There's no use complaining; after all, the only things that are certain are death and taxes — at least where socialized medicine is concerned.
On a tip from Dave D.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 13, 2008 8:07 AM
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Usually I have something snarky to say, but this time all I can muster is: Oh my God! Oh, I guess I can do a bit better than that (from memory, so it might be a bit off).
Eric Idle: Bring out your dead!
John Cleese: Here's one.
EI: Nine-pence.
Old Guy: I'm not dead.
EI: He says he's not dead.
JC: Yes he is.
OG: I'm not.
EI: He isn't?
JC: Well he will be soon, he's very ill.
And here I thought Monty Python was British, not French.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at June 13, 2008 8:25 AM
Thats a scary one boy and ghouls !!!
Reminds me of that old 80s cult classic MAX HEADROOM where they had this place called the Body Bank where you could dump a half dead person off and get cash - no questions asked.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2008 8:26 AM
"already reached the point where he could be officially regarded as dead."
Yowsa!!!
Well, if the officials say you're dead, who are you to argue? Sounds to me like he was going against official doctrine by continuing to live after "officials" declared him dead. I hope he is suitably punished.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at June 13, 2008 10:05 AM
Down the street and up the stair,
through the night go Burk and Hare.
Burk's the butcher and Hare's the thief a
and Knox is the boy who buys the beef.
Posted by: KHarn at June 13, 2008 3:49 PM
And in the case of medical malpractice who exactly do you sue? Since the doctors are employee's of the state they have sovereign immunity right?
Posted by: Oldcrow at June 13, 2008 6:54 PM
