Next target for arrogant, ignorant 'experts': organ donors

After an alarming federal report, you'd think transplant doctors would work hard to increase public confidence in their methods. Instead, they're going the other way. - Glenn H. Reynolds

Of all America’s problems, waning trust in our institutions — and our institutions’ lack of trustworthiness — is among the biggest.

• Case in point: organ donation.

Some have always worried that doctors might be a little too quick to declare them dead, in order to strip them of organs that might save other patients...
Turns out they weren’t being paranoid.

Last month The New York Times reported that under existing guidelines, “a growing number of patients” — some of them “gasping, crying or showing other signs of life” — are facing “premature or bungled attempts to retrieve their organs.”...