Dr. Heidi Klessig

@heidiklessigmd

Heidi Klessig MD is a retired anesthesiologist who writes/speaks on the ethics of organ donation and transplant. Her new book is "The Brain Death Fallacy."

Northwestern Wisconsin

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Dr. Heidi Klessig
@heidiklessigmd
Jun 1, 2025
Since some new followers have joined us recently, I thought I’d share my personal experience with organ procurement. Back in the late 1980s, during residency training, I came in for night call and was told to go up to ICU and prepare a young man for organ harvesting. I believed
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Dr. Heidi Klessig
@heidiklessigmd
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Andy Hodge, a 38-year-old plumber, went to the emergency room in February 2021 complaining of ongoing leg pain after surgery for a complicated fracture. A month later, he was dead. According to his sister, Ellie Hodge Hayse, Andy was quickly transferred to Owensboro Health
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Dr. Heidi Klessig
@heidiklessigmd
Sep 30
The US Senate has passed a bill sanctioning the forced organ harvesting of political prisoners in China. “Torsten Trey, executive director of medical ethics group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, said the bill ‘demonstrates perfectly how the Senate can overcome partisan
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
Sep 30
I bet you thought this would be a total no-brainer? 🤡 The Senate on Sept. 28 passed a bill targeting individuals involved in forced organ harvesting in China. The bipartisan Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act (S.4009) passed with unanimous
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Dr. Heidi Klessig
@heidiklessigmd
Sep 30
In 1968, thirteen men at Harvard Medical School proposed REDEFINING certain comatose people as being “dead.” They had no tests, studies, or evidence that people in a deep coma were now somehow dead. But they said redefining people with a severe neurological injury as being
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Dr. Heidi Klessig
@heidiklessigmd
Sep 29
In a recent podcast, bioethicist Arthur Caplan proudly proclaimed that he has pioneered using critically disabled people for research at NYU Langone Health. Caplan says that not only is this going on now at NYU, but there are dozens of such research centers starting up all over
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