Hospital Denies Liver Transplant to MMJ User Despite Prescription from Its own Doctor

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is refusing to grant a liver transplant to a cancer patient because he used medical marijuana, which not only is legal under California law but also was prescribed by a Cedars doctor.

Diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009, Norman B. Smith, 63, has been treated at Cedars-Sinai by oncologist Steven Miles, who approved medicinal marijuana in part to help his patient cope with the effects of chemotherapy. Smith became eligible for a liver transplant last year, but was removed from the list in February after testing positive for marijuana.

Hospital officials are insisting that Smith stop using marijuana for at least six months, undergo random drug testing, and participate in weekly substance-abuse counseling before they will consider putting him back on the list.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies...spite_Prescription_from_Its_own_Doctor_111119
 
Totally backwards, where do these people get their logic from? They must be out of their mind!?
I thought doctors had the responsiblity to look out for patients welfare, surely?
 
This makes no sense. He is sick and so is using medicine to help with the sickness but the hospital doesn't care about trying to help him live even though one of their doctors prescribed him MJ. I really hope they make an example of this out in CA and a different hospital can help him out.
 
this is bullshit..i mean i could be wrong but how does weed even effect the liver...would they do the same thing if somebody was drinkin
 
but it's perfectly okay for a patient to be on heavy duty pain killers, but if he smokes some pot that's a no no?
 
paper planes said:
this is bullshit..i mean i could be wrong but how does weed even effect the liver...would they do the same thing if somebody was drinkin
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Not drinking is definitely a criteria to be eligible for a liver transplant.
 
Zapa said:
Not drinking is definitely a criteria to be eligible for a liver transplant.
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Hahahaha!

I can't believe I missed that on the first read. A person in need of a liver transplant, yet still drinks. That's a funny thought!
 
This is another one of those things that is so clearly wrong that it makes people angry, or they break out laughing.
How could this be the world we are living in?
Aren't hospitals supposed to try to help people?
Who in the name of God put morality and medicine in the same thought?
 
I know, imagine that, 'now Norman, the first step is admitting you have a problem.' Jesus Christ.
 
Unethical in every sense of the word.

How utterly outrageous - and again, entirely unethical - that this gravely ill man has been given a death sentence because he's on MMJ.

What a fucked up society we live in when we're more concerned about addiction - to weed no less - than giving a poor soul on his deathbed at least a few extra years to live.
 
This is why we need more stem cell research going on so that NOBODY will be denied for any organ(s) and there would be virtually no waiting list(s).

I hate our health system. I wish that we had motioned about it within our own revolutionary and civil war(s).
 
He's probably on strong opiates as well, but they don't want him to attend substance counseling for those. Fucked up that the hospital would deny him an important operation for marijuana use, especially marijuana that his doctor prescribed.
 
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