I Want To Sue The Hospital! This Is How A Hospital Stole My Mother’s Organs
Dear Tee, I want to sue the hospital that treated my mum when she had an accident for stealing her heart. I know that doctors get sued all the time and that’s why medical malpractice insurance is so high. I even read an AMA report in 2023 that says a doctor is sued at least once in their lifetime of practice.
However, the patient rarely wins the case. Here is a direct quote from the May 2023 article, “When physicians are sued, two-thirds of civil liability claims are dropped, dismissed, or withdrawn without a finding of fault. When claims proceed to trial and are decided by a verdict, the defendants prevail in nearly 9 out 10 cases.”
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The statistics are daunting. Should I sue the hospital or should I let it go? Here’s what happened. In 2017, my mom got into a car accident but she lived three hours away, and we tried our best to get to the hospital on time. However, when we arrived, we learned she didn’t make it and we also found out that the hospital had already harvested her organs immediately after pronouncing her death.
My mom had never registered to be an organ donor, and without any agreement from us, they proceeded. In that same hospital, there was a 30-year-old woman on advanced life support who was at the top of the waiting list for a heart transplant. According to the hospital, someone had signed off claiming my mom was an organ donor.
We were too heartbroken and so didn’t really think to sue the hospital. Our grief took a disturbing turn when the organ recipient contacted us to express gratitude. Out of curiosity, I decided to look into them. To my horror and surprise, I discovered that the recipient’s husband was an EMT.
My suspicion grew when I learned that he was also the EMT who responded to my mom’s accident. I went to the hospital and confirmed that the husband of the recipient was indeed the EMT who had rescued my mom. The court found him guilty after emotionally confessing to trying to save his wife. He confirmed that my mom had a chance of survival if he had just tried harder.
This made it even more difficult for us to accept knowing that my mom could have still been alive. Now, my family and I want to sue the hospital and we want advice from similar people who have sued a hospital. What should we do?
