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• Parents Say Hospital Took Son's Organs Without Consent

  A set of distraught parents say their son should have survived surgery after a snowboarding accident, but he was suffocated by healthcare workers so they could take his organs.  Pretty heady charges, especially for a hospital - you know, the people who take an oath to "first do no harm."  Although there isn't enough information out there to tell whether the hospital is actually guilty of suffocating Gregory Jacobs, the debate over whether the hospital had rights to move in and take his organs is the one parents need to focus on. Read More... Posted Mar 06 2009, 08:18 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: hospital, healthcare, organ donation, Jeanne Sager, heart, dead child, organs, pediatric organ donation, organ harvesting

• Mom on Experimental Kidney Donation: Not as Bad as Childbirth

  Doctors attempts to make kidney donation less painful for a mother of three apparently worked. Having her kidney removed via her vagina, Kim Johnson says, was less painful than childbirth.  The forty-eight-year-old was the first woman to ever have her organ removed in this manner, a procedure performed by doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland this week. Read More... Posted Feb 05 2009, 08:33 AM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: family, childbirth, surgery, kidneys, organ donation, Jeanne Sager, niece, kidney donation, aunt, busy moms, laproscopy, organs, pain of childbirth