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Poor choice of emoticons. What is funny about this story?
Also, on the "Brain Dead is Really Dead" front:
Hospital fined after "brain dead" woman that they were prepping for organ harvest wakes up
Again, this was a case that proper protocols were not followed - and not followed on a multitude of levels. They did not try to clear the drugs from her system. They did assure CNS depressents were cleansed from the body before declaration .Hell, they didn't even listen to the nurse who said she was improving. Is there any kind of assumption that McMath's declaration of brain death was outside of proper protocols?
One good thing can come of the McMath case. With all of the media scrutiny, I will bet that hospitals are looking over protocols and procedures for declaring brain death to assure dead is dead. No hospital wants that kind of media scrutiny.