• tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Maybe if you would actually read the article

     In addition to prison officials, the lawsuit names the UAB Health System as defendants. The suit claims UAB’s School of Medicine obtained Dotson’s heart, and details a 2018 incident where medical students “noticed that a disproportionate number of the specimens they encountered during their medical training originated from individuals who had died in prison custody within the Alabama Department of Corrections.”

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      11 months ago

      Does that mean that’s what actually happened or is that just what the family is accusing them of in the suit

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        11 months ago

        Well, I suspect they have some evidence if they are naming the institution in the lawsuit.

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      11 months ago

      Still not a transplanted organ. That would fall under the “kept it for someother reason” category I mentioned.

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        No but the market for body parts to be used for research or education is bery underregulated in the US. They could be selling organs just not for transplants. John Oliver just did an episode on it actually.