Date: 11/14/07
Your life is put in the hands of doctors who are there to help and save your life. You need new organs and you have finally found one. Now you look ahead of your life telling yourself you have a second chance to live. But what happens when you receive your new organs and then you find out you contracted HIV and hepatitis C? All four patients in Chicago are left devastated. This case was first published by The Chicago Tribune yesterday. Two patients were infected at University of Chicago Medical Center, one at Rush University Medical Center and another at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Officials would not release any information of the donor or what parts were donated to the patients.
The chief, Dr. Mills of University of Chicago Medical Center have said the diseases are left treatable. Just because it's left treatable doesn't make life better for the patients knowing they have a disease that can't be cure. The organ donor had passed away and the donor was tested negative on HIV and hepatitis C. The test they have conducted could not find the virus and just took the reaction of the body. It was still too recent to find out if she was HIV positive, it needs time to react. Supposedly the organ donor had a high risk which a close friend of the donor had provided information of a health and social history.
I was very into this article because it is such a health risk for everyone to know. We believe doctors are so trustworthy and we put our life in their hands to make sure they will keep us alive. But even with major mistakes of one donor organs have spread and affect four more people. So what are these patients left to do? Sue the hospital or the organization that provided the organs? Either way, it won't change the way they live their life. They would need to take multiple medication to keep the virus in control. When they thought they had a second chance to live, the are left to die slowly.
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