Really? This is the sort of abuse people, including some physicians, have been warning about for years. Thanks to AF for sending me this. <\/p>\n
According to a partially redacted, eight-page <\/a>report<\/a> dated May 28, 2025, HHS received \u201can allegation of potentially preventable harm to a neurologically injured patient.\u201d This prompted the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the subdepartment of HHS that oversees the organ donation system, to launch an investigation after HRSA Administrator Thomas Engels assumed his post in February.<\/a><\/p>\n The New York Times identified<\/a> that victim as Anthony Thomas Hoover II, then 33 years old, who was hospitalized with a drug overdose in 2021. Hours after a doctor had declared him brain-dead, Hoover awakened<\/a> to find medical staff preparing to remove his organs. \u201cEven though the man cried, pulled his legs to his chest and shook his head, officials still tried to move forward.\u201d Hospital staff ultimately became \u201cuncomfortable with the amount of reflexes\u201d Hoover showed, and a doctor ultimately refused to remove him from life-support. The man ultimately survived.<\/p>\n The Times also identified the organization preparing to remove Hoover\u2019s organs as Network for Hope, a federally-funded \u201corgan procurement organization\u201d (OPO) that operates in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. The House Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hauled Network for Hope CEO Barry Massa in for a hearing<\/a> on Tuesday, where representatives expressed their astonishment at Hoover\u2019s story. \u201cThis seems to be a story more fitting for a horror movie than a congressional hearing, frankly,\u201d said<\/a> Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla).<\/p>\n