OH, THOSE PARENTS ARE EV*L!! 😡🤯  

I once heard from an EMT that if you’re an organ donor, they don’t put in a ton of effort to save your life in an emergency. I never really knew if it was true or not.

how selfish sacrificing someone else's son to treat your son and arguing on top of that 💀

HIPAA violation

I would have also sued the other family for emotional distress. Like... I get that your son is ill, but how scummy do you have to be to approach someone like that AND THEN tip off the other party?! Ugh.

That’s f’d up. Society is doomed when you can’t even trust the hospital with your life.

Bro heard the docs talking shit and woke up😂

Parents are desperate and it’s sad to see their son sick but they took it waaaaaaayyyy to far.

HIPAA - how did the couple know about the brother’s condition or donor designation?

My sister sued after she had a severe Gaul bladder infection. The surgeon kept pushing the surgery back, insisting other people needed him more, another surgeon stepped in and revealed that she was so bad she would have died that night if she hadn’t been given the surgery by another doctor. She was I in extreme pain and was horribly mistreated by nurses too

There is a famous case of a teenager and her family suing John Hopkins Hospital for keeping the teenager, Maya, in the hospital for three months without the parental consent. Her mother suicides after 60 or 69 days of not being able to see her daughter. The case was also made a netflix documentary called "Take Care of Maya"

thats ABSURD! my mom is a doctor and she always says to not put on your ID you’re an organ donor, just tell your emergency contact that you are, otherwise they might not treat patients as they should thinking about other people needing organs

That is just diabolical. I'm glad you guys won. And your brother survived.

Not only did the hospital violate HIPAA in telling the other family, they are heartless.

Should have also sued the family... wtf

I once added myself as an organ donor my dad told me to rip it out of my documents so fast it shocked me. A woman we know had lost her son not so long ago due to the same thing he was hospitalized after an accident and the hospital took him off life support to harvest his organs when he still had chances of surviving

My dad had a heart transplant. The fact that someone had to die so my dad could live was devastating for my entire family. I can’t even imagine the parents doing this. We still celebrate the donor’s birthday even after all these years.

I have heard so many stories similar to this one and experienced it first hand when my older cousin was in a coma for a week. He had been in a car accident involving five cars all due to a drunk driver in the freeway. Out of eight people two survived. My cousin in a coma. The other couldn’t be left alone because of his trauma he would start screaming. The doctors constantly told my uncle to cut life support on my cousin because he wasn’t going to wake up, that it was better to donate his organs to someone who needs them. My uncle asked the doctor for more time. And then a nurse came and told my uncle not to leave my cousin alone with this doctor, to always have someone stay with him. My cousin woke up in a week exactly after the accident. He’s not the same. But he’s alive! As much as I love the idea of being able to help someone after death, I wouldn’t put “Donor” my license ever. I just made my wishes known to my family and encourage them to do the same.

As a transplant recipient, I recommend you say no on your license. That will get your family involved in the medical decision. Then communicate with your family! Donate if you want to, but be super sure of your choice.

That doctor would have needed a doctor if I found out

The only way they could’ve shown up at the family’s door - was that the hospital/doctor/nurse/social worker - SOMEONE told them the Pt’s circumstances, name, & address. HIPPA VIOLATION and a whopping lawsuit.

I took organ donor off my license but apparently it was still on my medical report so make sure talk to whoever over your docs about it too. DMV didn’t ask me just put it on there and I always been against it since they gave up on my dad because he was one when he died. I won’t allow my kids to be organ donors because doctors literally give up on you.

I sued a hospital and won. I got hit by a car at 2:30 PM on a Sunday, that night at 9 PM, the doctors were going to discharge me with nothing but a few bumps and bruises, skip school monday and go back tuesday. My mom freaked out and insisted they keep me overnight and get a second opinion, the next morning a doctor flies into my room, asking where my immobilizers are, and why the nurses have my knee bent when it’s broken. That doctor says that one of my knees is broken, my elbow is broken, and my hand is broken, plus I have a fractured ankle. Three months later, I find out from another doctor, after a third opinion, that I also had a completely shattered pelvis, which was the reason I struggled to walk, my other knee had been dislocated and broken, I broke four ribs, and my collarbone was broken. “Bumps and bruises”, my ass. I got $25k.

This is the very reason I have never listed myself as a donor on any official documents.

Butler Hospital sent my grandpa home 3 times telling him the pain in his leg was just arthritis. The pain got so bad he went back and they finally ran tests and he had a blood clot that turned into a horrible infection. He had to have his leg amputated! And no one in my family would back me up to sue them. I couldn’t afford a lawyer alone and didn’t know then that some work like Edgar Snyder. I wish I knew more then because if they hadn’t sent him home he wouldn’t have lost his leg.

That’s all kinds of HIPPA violations. Hospital, doctor, other family. Sue em all.

This happens more often than you think. The administration gets pressured into making decisions like these by wealthy or well connected families.

My aunt was hit by an amulance. They were speeding without their siren on in a neighborhood with many corners that had low visibility on the turn and t-boned her as she was driving. In the ambulances defense, aparently there was a car that was messing with the ambulance riding on their tail while they were trying to go to a call, forcing the ambulance to drive faster and faster to avoid being hit. This second car was never id and the hospital was still deemed at fault for lack of siren. She's disabled with sever chronic pain, has had to deal with drug rehab from the pain pills they put her on, and gets a check every month for the rest of her life that is enough she can live on fairly comfortably.

Second and Bro WTF the parents are sickos and need help

ok my story i had a lymph gland infection at 10 years old, and the first night it felt like i pulled a muscle in my neck. The next day I could not get up off the floor . We went to the hospital that night and they said this " So, you have a bad infection in your neck, so go home and take ibuprofen and Tylenol and you will be fine" I kept getting worse up to the point that i had to turn around to look at something and could not talk. If a receptionist had not said she would get the doctor fired, i could have been paralyzed or ded

I understand the pain of the final days on life support. My brother was brutally attacked a year and half ago. He was revived on scene and was unconscious. He was unlucky and didn't show signs of cognition. My parents were the last to see him. I didn't get to see him before he passed. But there was this group of people who kept asked my parents if they wanted to donate the organs, because my brother often donated blood. They came everyday to ask my parents if they would donate it and one of the woman said, "look your son is going to die give my daughter his liver" my parents understood but they didn't budge.

I don't want my loved ones to know I've just passed, then hours later get flooded with calls asking for my skin and organs. It's so dehumanizing while in grief. My brother passed away and we kept getting calls, feeling a little grateful he can still save so many people, but then told he's too dehydrated to use anything. It was heartbreaking.

Also the fact that they gave a NAME AND ADDRESS to the donor. That has to be a breach of privacy.

The family tipped who off?

A family member of one of my aunts friends passed away in a hospital and the hospital won't stop pressuring them to have his blood donated (his blood type was O) and they refused to go through with it and it just made them all think that the hospital didn't save them because they found out what their blood type was and figured they could get free blood from a dead man. The guy even said before he got put into the hospital "don't let them take my blood", imagen being purposefully left to die by doctors just so they could try and get your blood, organs or just your body.....it's scary to think this is what's happening in America, and it's wrong

How could you take one person's life to save another especially when that person is still alive? That's absolutely brutal.

That doctor needs his license revoked. Pretty sure giving the other parents the address is Some sort of hippa violation or breach if privacy

This is why I don't want to be a donar, because of crap like this. Usually people say "this doesnt normally happen" I've heard too many horror stories about this, and I'm sure the only reason we haven't heard more is because they were successful. Too many doctors give up on people near the end.

This is why I am not an organ donor. I heard a doctor talk about this before that hospitals do this and declare people brain dead too quickly so they can harvest organs. He said a lot of times the brain needs more time to heal and that doesn't mean people are brain dead. It's horrifying and disgusting how many people have died who could have survived.

That’s definitely not the first time that’s happened

In my country you are automatically an organ donor, you have to do some paperwork if you DONT want to be one. I feel like this might decrease what some people are describing (less effort to save a life) since basically everyone is an organ donor

Sue the hospital AND THE FAMILY.

✨️HIPAA violations✨️

DO NOT FILL OUT ORGAN DONOR STUFF!!! if you wish to donate your organs when you die, tell your family and have it in your will ONLY! because of the shortage of organs, if anyone in the medical field sees you are a donor, they will not help you! stay safe out there

This happened to my grandfather. But his organs were harvested.

The fact that the dr said anything to the other family about your brothers condition and donor status is a hipaa violation.

OMG! I’m so glad that the situation took a turn into this direction. I don’t want to imagine what the situation would have been like if OP’s Brother did not show signs of cognition. I’m also very glad that OP’s family sued the hospital and won the case. But most importantly, I’m so glad OP’s brother survive! From his accident as well as this hospital incident. Hope he has recovered well. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Hopefully the brother will learn something from this and not put himself in such dangerous situations. Heck, I hope he took himself off the donar’s list, cause I know I would! I probably would never want to even go near almost any hospital if this were to happen to me. 😭😭😭

My mother was nursing supervisor of her whole hospital. She used to tell me stories of the organ donating team (I forget their official name) absolutely hounding and harassing families in grief about harvesting the organs of the patients who were still very much alive. Numerous times my mom was called to the floor to handle disputes between them and the patients family because of how heartlessly they would harass families just trying to come to terms with loss. My mother hated the organ team because of their vulture like behavior. She told me never to sign that little line on the back of my license authorizing organ donation.

The hope the family got in trouble as well. That is horrible. I understand wanting to save your son but sacrificing a stranger’s life for it is diabolical.

This is why you shouldn't sign up for an organ donor ID. I heard countless stories of young people who were left to die (especially victims of car/bike accidents) so some rich persons can get a piece of them... 😢

I wish they would have named the hospital

that is a severe hippa violation on top of them being absolutely HORRENDOUS people

Yeah, people are treated differently if you're an organ donor. Be careful

This is why I’m not putting myself down as an organ donor when I get my license. It’s terrifying when shit like this happens and people know that this happens but politicians and news outlets will talk about “Oh This is the worst organ shortage ever.” MAYBE BECAUSE IF SHIT LIKE THIS! Seriously fucked up and terrifying.

If I'm in a coma and the doctors are colluding with other people to harvest my organs in the same room as me, I'm getting up like the Undertaker and no amount of muscle atrophy can stop me.

Once I broke my arm and the doctor put a cast on the wrong arm

I also found out that a lot of hospitals do this. It’s disgusting cuz there are times where a patient has got into a accident bc they did smth and the nurses/doctors don’t want anything to do with them to save them which is like rlly messed up cuz every patient no matter how dumb their actions are, needs to be treated as a patient.

If he had a donor ID, it's not up to the dad whether or not they donate. The brother already made that decision for himself. But the other family knowing he was the donor? That's sketchy af, why would they know that???

My family member broke multiple vertebrate. Was able to talk, walk with a brace, breathe, eat, use the restroom, and acting normal except they were in pain. The nurse wanted us to sign a DNR for them, even though the family member was completely coherent and understood everything. They were talking to us like that family member wasn't even there, but the family member was actively answering questions. WTF is that B.S.

WTF! send those parents to jail!

My mom was diagnosed and treated for cancer that didn’t exist. She was terribly sick for 2 years, had to retire early, and has lasting issues from the trauma to her body. She wasn’t the first person that this doctor had misdiagnosed but she was the last. Th doctor had to “retire early” and turn in their medical license. My parents and a few others got decent settlements.

Imagine trying to kill someone else’s child because you think your child deserves life more than them. I get that the odds were low and that death can be a scary time that keeps you from thinking logically but what the heck were they thinking?

I'm sure the brother got better out of spite

That's 100% why I am not an organ donor! I used to work at a very well known hospital (think one of the best in the US) and there are all kinds of issues like this surrounding organ donation. I've told people this who ask why I refused to be an organ donor and they scoffed. I said "If your god wants you to live, you will, but we are all going to die.". It really is that simple.

In the US, rhat type of disclosure would be a HIPAA violation.

My sister in laws friend has a daughter. Her daughter is around 8, I think? The daughter had to go in and get her tonsils removed. They were planning on this anyway as she was having infections. She gets sick and they decide ok, her tonsils have to go. They sign a waiver, pay extra for bubble gum flavored laughing gas, etc. Surgery takes longer than normal. Then the doc comes out and says that they had to air lift their daughter to a specialty facility because instead of laughing gas they gave her too much fentanyl and she had to be resuscitated 3 times and she just kept overdosing. The daughter is now fine. But as soon as they got to the other hospital, the hospitals legal team met with the parents to talk about suing the hospital. The hospital tried settling for 100k, but the lawyers said absolutely not. It's still ongoing as this happened, maybe 2 months ago, but still holy shit

Hippa violation

No, those parents aren't evil, they are desperate It doesn't justify it, but a little compassion both ways does a lot

Yeah this is why I’m never going to be an organ donor either. You’re organs arent even going to be donated, the hospital gets to sell your organs for free (on your end) for THOUSANDS of dollars.

RN here: This is what we would call a HIPPA violation. Disclosing information about other patients is highly illegal and situations like this are exactly why that is the case. Imagine if that family was a little more desperate and unhinged and they went and unplugged the brother’s life support knowing he’s the donor. 😓

You should have sued the doctors involved too!!! To be sure they lost their licenses!!! This was very inhumane!!!

My goodness, being an elderly woman who’s been married for 56 years I can’t help but shudder at this post. I was taught to TRUST the DOCTOR. My husband is in poor health. I pray for him every morning and sometimes I pray for him at night to because I do fall asleep early in fact I’m like a little child who just falls asleep early and I wake up early too. That’s when I pray for him and everyone who is ill. The older I get the longer my list gets. The saddest thing about my list is how many younger people are these days. Most because of some type of cancer. ❤

That's just appalling behaviour from those parents and the hospital.

That's absolutely awful like how dare you come to someone's home and basically ask is he dead yet

it's like OP's brother knew what the hospital was going to do

This is quite possibly the worst case of entitlement I have ever heard of😳🤦🏽‍♀️

Exactly why I’m not a donor. I’ve seen the doctors wanna give up on people way too early so they can take their organs.

This almost happened to me. I was on life support and the doctors kept insisting that I was brain dead and that my family should pull the plug. My mom refused even after the doctors told her that if by some miracle I ever woke up I would be “mentally” damaged. I woke up on the 7th day, shocking the doctors and staff.

This why I never checked organ donor, and why I'll NEVER let my kids check it either.

Videos like these make me so incredibly grateful I don't have to life in a dystopia like that

Really rough situation, I feel bad for both parties but mostly for yall

Okay but if I want to donate my organs how dare my family try to stop that

That's really low. I get wanting to save your loved one's life. But, ffs.

The brother : I beg your pardon -_- 👁️👄👁️

Never put yourself on the donor list, they will see you as a harvest

I think all the doctors who say "it's all in your head" should be sued when someone else finds the issue!

To the people saying that if they know you are an organ donor they won't try as hard to save you I've actually looked into this and have taken several medical classes they have several codes of conduct that they must follow and are obligated to try everything they can to the best of their abilities within their scope of practice to save your life or they can get sued. Personally I don't think the first things anybody would think of when saving a life is whether or not they are an organ donor. There job is to save people's life not harvest organ. They would be wasting so much time they have to save your life to find your license, see if you are a donor and decide they don't want to do their job correctly and risk getting sued, for a POTENTIAL oragn to harvest. But I will not deny the corruptness in the medical field.

That’s scary. People take the donor off your DL. I’m hearing horror stories!

My grandfather woke up in atrocious pain from suregery, turns out they forgot to drain out his blatter (which is basic procedure) He also had a lence BREAK in his eye durrning a basic catarac surgery Idk why we're not suing

Love, Desperation, and Hope make people do awful things

Those parents should’ve been arrested!

That’s soooo messed up the other family has some nerve to be asking that .

That makes absolutely no sense. When you are on life supporr, your organs get damaged too much to be donated, especially after a car accident. Maybe the parents still tried to "buy" the brothers organs and the doctor worked with them, but their son still would have died

Where I am from, which is Australia, even if you have a donor ID, your family still has the say on whether they want your organs donated or not. Not sure if its the same everywhere else.

So many red flags in this fable... can anyone share origin source... if not then... shame shame shame.

OMG...That family had nerve, glad your brother survived. That hospital should have been sued and the person giving out that info should have been sued as wel.l

For many reasons, including this one, I would never consider being a donor.

Bro said "Now or Never!"

Wtf.

It's all about the money...😡🤬😡

That is fcked up! Also first