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arogers1102

posted 02-21-2003 08:22 AM    
Perhaps in our rhoughts and prayers tonight we should include the little girl who has inadvertantly received the wrong organ during her transplant. Currently she is holding on... but barely. Let our prayers and well wishes be heard by GOD so he will look after this poor little girl and her family in this very trying time!

TheKnot

posted 02-22-2003 09:48 PM    
She's dead...just looked at the article today...The doctors declared her brain dead and pulled the plug...

God, that sucks...


arogers1102

posted 02-23-2003 09:33 AM    
I hadn't heard that piece of bad news until now. Let our hearts go out to that poor little girls family and friends now.

Graysith

posted 02-23-2003 12:20 PM    
Indeed, let's all keep the family in our hearts at this terrible time... and hope they find it in their hearts to forgive. For we are human, and make mistakes, as we all seem to forget from time to time.

What irritates me is the fact that the article mentioned a charity foundation that had been put together to pay Jessica's hospital bills.

That hospital better swallow it all. It had just better not charge one red cent....


Taehun

posted 02-23-2003 04:14 PM    
As sad as the story for about the girl is, I gotta say that I feel pretty bad for the doctor that actually performed the operation. If I was him, I'd probably be jumping out a window right now...

Graysith

posted 02-23-2003 04:31 PM    
I feel way sadder for the poor schmuck of a clerk who probably was daydreaming about his upcoming weekend off when he typed in the wrong blood type for the donor organs...

Unless he's some malicious so and so who did it on purpose.


Loban

posted 02-23-2003 11:11 PM    
It wasn't the doc's fault...

And, I don't feel sorry for the staff member that fooled up... that's their job, NOT to get it wrong... I don't care if human beings make mistakes, if your job relies on human life, and it's as simple as recording the correct blood type, there is no acceptance of error...

Sorry, I think they should lose their job, and all credibility with anything close to the job field...

Having said that, I can feel sorry for the clerk... after all, I'm not heartless... I am a human being too...

[ 02-24-2003 02:36 AM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Loban ]


Anakin

posted 02-23-2003 11:56 PM    
Am I a heartless fiend?

I feel bad, and it's sad that it happened, but people talk about this as if it's a national tragedy. Yes, a girl died, and that's a horrible thing, but am I a fiend for not weeping?


Mara1Jade

posted 02-24-2003 11:30 PM    
No, it's not a national tragedy. But it's definitely a terrible "example" if you will of how our medical system works. Sometimes it seems like the things that really count are glossed over...

...I mean, why didn't SOMEONE notice that somewhere in that girl's files her blood type had been recorded as two different things? The clerk had to get wrong from SOMEWHERE. And if it wasn't the poor clerk, then who the hell is testing our blood for the type? There's alot of carelessness going on around America's medical world, and it's frightening; we take it for granted that we have good medical service, but we don't realize that there are folks out there in the med field who aren't paying attention or giving a damn about what they do. It probably WASN'T intentional...God, I sure hope it wasn't...but if someone had been certain to dot their i's and cross all their t's...

...that little girl would still be here.

But I think that's the heart of the matter, if you caught what I mean amidst all my rambling...

[ 02-24-2003 11:32 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Mara1Jade ]


Loban

posted 02-24-2003 11:47 PM    
Who's to say she would have accepted the transplant even if it was the correct blood type, there were far more risks she didn't get a chance to overcome...

Mara1Jade

posted 02-24-2003 11:59 PM    
Well if you want to get extremely technical, she would have had a MUCH HIGHER CHANCE of survival with organs that matched her blood type.

Padme of Hidden Lake

posted 03-03-2003 07:35 PM    
Yikes I didn't hear about this one - poor family... That's aweful...