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May 4, 2008, 12:03 am
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Timothy Garon died a week after he was refused a liver transplant for the second time. He was told he would not be placed on the list until he completed a 60-day drug-treatment class.

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Medical_Marijuana_Patient_Denied_Liver_Tranplant_Dies_17109.html

Like I said in the first post about this -- and I feel even more angry than I did then -- it's time for the poor man's family to sue that hospital. When "a committee" just states policy and forgets what's important, than they are acting less than human and there is no place for that in places that are supposed to be in the business of healing.

I don't know if anyone here has had nausea from their illness. My sister has days of nausea after her chemo and it's a really terrible thing. She's never more than an arm's length away from a little basin to use when she starts to gag. She can't eat, can't drink, can't even smell food without feeling like her insides are going to come out. I can see why this man needed marijuana to fight nausea.

The man, Timothy Garon, used a medication prescribed by his doctor. Period. There is no reason to penalize him TO DEATH because he followed instructions. It's time for his family to sue the hospital, not just to "get back" at them, but to make certain that nothing like this happens again to anyone in that or any other hospital.

Can you imagine how that family feels now?

His family better sue that hospital. This is upsetting. If my family member was on a 'list' to get a liver transport when they need it most, I would of fought against it.

Even though this is in hind sight, it does set a precedence for the future. Any family that finds themselves in such a position should publicly demonstrate from the onset, so at least the person's life can be saved.

Okay, I can see why you are upset by this in one way but look at it from another angle. These rules are in place to prevent those who abuse their livers from getting a new one to ruin. The goal is for someone who actually wants to live to get the liver, not someone who is killing themselves slowly from a drug addiction. Unfortunately, the hospital carried this rule a bit too far in this case. There is a big difference between medical marijuana and other drugs that get ingested. Marijuana is not processed through the liver like other drugs so should not be on that list.

this is a two edged piece. On teh one hand I am upset by the delay. However I can understand why.

If you have used street drugs of any type for any length fo time, you need to detoxify. So the requirement for him to clean out was not unreasonable. teh wuestion is how many times did they ask him. there is also another factor. does a person who destroys their own body deserve a new liver to be slowly destroyed again.

It seems as though this is more than black and white of a hospital not giving but rather a case of a differnet elements at work.

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