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Saturday, October 18, 2014
Sign spotted: Don't take your organs to heaven
Sign spotted in the emergency room by a colleague...
If I were taken to an ER with a condition that, while serious enough to warrant the visit, was not obviously life-threatening, seeing that sign might make me wonder about the ER staff's commitment to keeping me alive. Or at the very least I might feel I was being coerced/blackmailed into signing up as an organ donor.
Personally I think that the sign is very inappropriate in the ER context.
If I were taken to an ER with a condition that, while serious enough to warrant the visit, was not obviously life-threatening, seeing that sign might make me wonder about the ER staff's commitment to keeping me alive. Or at the very least I might feel I was being coerced/blackmailed into signing up as an organ donor.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that the sign is very inappropriate in the ER context.