Meanwhile hospitals doing

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 03:22:13 +0000

In reply to 'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon'

Meanwhile hospitals doing what they often do the best: using every trick in the book and then some to avoid being sued:

The disAbility Law Center of Virginia alleges that the company that operates Parham Doctors' Hospital is ignoring its request for records. https://t.co/D0nNf3jYNa
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2023

If you want to be more ascared of going into one, watch

[....] not because we didn’t

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:21:02 +0000

In reply to 'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon'

[....] not because we didn’t achieve and maintain sparkling cardiac health. But because the sorry state of transplant medicine took us down.

Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors. And I understand the irony of an incredibly successful and fortunate two-time heart transplant recipient making this case, but my longevity also provides me with a unique vantage point. Standing on the edge of death now, I feel compelled to use my experience in the transplant trenches to illuminate and challenge the status quo.

Over the last almost four decades a toxic triad of immunosuppressive medicines — calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolites, steroids — has remained essentially the same with limited exceptions. These transplant drugs (which must be taken once or twice daily for life, since rejection is an ongoing risk and the immune system will always regard a donor organ as a foreign invader) cause secondary diseases and dangerous conditions, including diabetes, uncontrollable high blood pressure, kidney damage and failure, serious infections and cancers. The negative impact on recipients is not offset by effectiveness: the current transplant medicine regimen does not work well over time to protect donor organs from immune attack and destruction.

My first donor heart died of transplant medicines’ inadequate protection of the donor heart from rejection; my second will die most likely from their stymied immune effects that give free rein to cancer [....]

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Meanwhile hospitals doing

[....] not because we didn’t