Even patients who have signed up to the organ donor register in advance, can have their wishes stopped by their family
Families are unfairly blocking organ donation from dead relatives who wanted to make the gift of life, claims a leading expert in ethics.
At least one in 10 people who decided in advance to donate their organs is having their wishes thwarted, it has emerged.
Doctors are blamed for not trying hard enough to persuade families to do the right thing, says an article in the British Medical Journal (must credit)
Author Dr David Shaw said the law is on the side of medics when a dead patient is on the donor register, and their organs can be taken against the will of the family.
Instead, doctors are giving in to psychological pressure from grieving relatives even when they know the dead patient was carrying an organ donor card, he said.
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