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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much.

There are people whose job is to be dispatched to traffic fatalities, check if they're an organ donor, begin harvesting.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean they go to the hospital, not the crash site, but that’s about right. The alternative is the organs get wasted because too much time passed, and that seems wasteful to me.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

... Not for motorcyclists.

Who wore full helmets.

And have good eyes.

Gotta get those on ice pretty fast, is what I've been told.

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Almost every motorcyclist I know is against organ donation.

It’s almost like the medical industry acting like ghouls is driving people away from donation for some reason.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, the American healthcare industry is so insanely corrupt and broken that uh, guess what?

There's no ethical healthcare under capitalism.

If you're a medical professional, and you're willingly any part of this system?

Nobody cares that its some other part of the bureacracy that's actually the bad guy and you're just doing your job.

Nope, fuck you, you're just another, willing part of the machine that shackles people into debt slavery and destitution.

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, the American healthcare industry

Miss me with your US defaultism thanks.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Miss me with your nationalistic bigotry, thanks.

I very clearly specified what I was talking about.

If you don't wanna talk about it, don't.

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You think its bigotry to point put that the aussie.zone user talking about motorcyclists they know is not US centric and not what you should focus on?

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I get this too. I’m registered with Piefed.ca and Americans tend to assume they are talking to another American. It’s like, bro, just read the username.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, for all of those. A procurement specialist isn’t going on site. EMS is recovering the body, getting it to the hospital, and that’s where procurement happens.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Again, I've been told otherwise, that the...

... apparently the preffered term for 'organ harvester' is 'procurement specialist'...

... that there are cases, namely where people are more splattered about the scene than a single consistent mass, where such people get dispatched to the scene.

Sure, the actual organ extraction takes place in a controlled environment, but the first step is getting the good bits secured in a climate controlled container.