X-Message-Number: 16308
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:24:56 -0500
From: Ken Wolfe <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #16305 (Bill 907)
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> Message #16305
> From: 
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 04:37:14 EDT
> Subject: "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law..."
>
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> 
> State Senate Bill 907, "Organ Donations Presumed," would allow doctors to
> remove a person's organs for transplantation four hours after he or she is
> pronounced dead, if there were no known wishes to the contrary and if a
> family member or guardian did not arrive, even if that person had not
> previously signed an organ donor card.

Would an appropriate medic-alert bracelet on the patient not constitute
"known wishes to the contrary"?


-- 
Ken Wolfe
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

http://www.mts.net/~kenwolfe/

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