UCHealth denies kidney transplant to unvaccinated
woman in stage 5 renal failure
Fox News,
by
Emma Colton
Original Article
Posted By: sunshinehorses,
10/6/2021 10:07:31 AM
A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure is scrambling to find a new hospital to perform a kidney transplant after a health system in the state denied the transplant due to her and her donor being unvaccinated against the coronavirus.
"Here I am, willing to be a direct donor to her. It does not affect any other patient on the transplant list," Jaimee Fougner, Leilani Lutali’s kidney donor, told CBS4. "How can I sit here and allow them to murder my friend when I’ve got a perfectly good kidney and can save her life?"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PageTurner 10/6/2021 10:14:49 AM (No. 936870)
This woman has a health condition that should exempt her from the vaccine entirely. What kind of medicine do these people practice?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PageTurner 10/6/2021 10:18:00 AM (No. 936882)
One of the Fox commenters had this one, which is pretty much the point:
The covid mortality rate for a transplant is 20% but the mortality rate for her not having a transplant is 100%.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/6/2021 10:21:54 AM (No. 936892)
This is crazy. These people have gone beyond insanity.
The last thing this woman needs is a vaccination .
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
reefdiver 10/6/2021 10:39:30 AM (No. 936915)
Is this woke medicine or broke medicine?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ribicon 10/6/2021 10:51:18 AM (No. 936923)
This is the next frontier on our descent into complete tyranny. High surcharges on health insurance for people who do not want this shot, and refusal of service by health providers. On the other hand, Pfizer and Moderna are making a killing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Citoyen 10/6/2021 10:55:40 AM (No. 936928)
If the mortality rate for transplant patients who get Covid is 20 or 30 percent, then the prudent course for Jaimee Foughner is to get the vaccine. Any risk of harm from the vaccine is outweighed by the risk of death from Covid after the kidney is transplanted
The woman says she won’t get the vaccine due to religious reasons. What an earth does that mean?What church forbids this vaccine? In general I am opposed to forcing anyone to get vaccinated but transplant operations are expensive. Organs are scarce. I don’t blame the doctors for requiring her to get the shot. She and her friend can go elsewhere to get the transplant done.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chisca 10/6/2021 11:08:06 AM (No. 936943)
Re # 2. She wont die if she doesn't get a transplant. She will continue to get dialysis 3x week.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JL80863 10/6/2021 12:20:39 PM (No. 937030)
UC Health used to be a big deal. Now they are just another Woke big business. It used to be "first, do no harm". Now it is "first, do no good". Democrats screw up everything.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 10/6/2021 12:42:46 PM (No. 937061)
Rules are Rules.
Remember Rutgers. An unvaccinated student wanted to take an on-line class. He was refused permission. It was a Rule. And Rules must be obeyed.
The Rule is you must be vaccinated, despite the fact that the vaccine does NOT protect you from COVID-19. You must be vaccinated anyway.
After all, Rules are Rules. And what would bureaucrats do, if not for enforcing rules?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 10/6/2021 12:55:12 PM (No. 937087)
Find a doctor who remembers the Hippocratic Oath.
Evil murderers with MD after their names.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Cannon 10/6/2021 1:50:09 PM (No. 937173)
Defacto death penalty for "ani-vaxxers".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
freightdog 10/6/2021 2:04:38 PM (No. 937192)
Huh... where are those who insist that access to health care is a human right?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/6/2021 2:10:33 PM (No. 937200)
There's going to be one heck of a civil suit. Just think if they refused a person with AIDS from a kidney transplant.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Califedup 10/6/2021 2:52:04 PM (No. 937246)
Does anyone trust doctors and nurses like they used to before this Chinese Wuhan Flu Bioweapon attack? Another vital sector of our economy, Healthcare, taken over by the communist death democrats and is being rapidly destroyed.
Same goes for the military and all of the other government agencies.
Be prepared.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 10/6/2021 3:20:43 PM (No. 937269)
#6 must want to save money by killing her with the shot, then the transplant need will be anulled.
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I wonder if the their lawyers feel that they have no liability when refusing healthcare. I have been denied healthcare and this is getting out of hand.