Alcoholics DO get liver transplants. [View all]

[Bucky]

via https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876525/

Abstract

Most candidates for liver transplantation have irreversible cirrhosis caused by years of heavy alcohol consumption. Arguments against liver transplantation for alcoholics include the presumption of relapse to heavy drinking, which might damage the new liver or lead to its rejection. Corresponding ethical arguments focus on the presumption that alcoholics brought their condition upon themselves and should not compete with nonalcoholics for scarce donor livers. However, experimental data demonstrate that carefully selected alcoholics can survive liver transplantation and return to the workplace as productive citizens. Moreover, it has never been considered ethical for clinicians to refuse treatment to patients for diseases that are partly or wholly preventable.

As utterly annoying as the anti-vax and anti-mask people are, insisting that the disease that put them in the crowded ICU is a hoax perpetrated by known hoaxsters Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci I do wish DUers would drop the notion that doctors and nurses are karma's agents of retribution and should refuse healthcare to people who don't mask up or get vaccinated.

If an idiot walks into a burning building, you still want them rushed to the local burn unit after they come out screaming "Maybe the fire isn't fake news!" This is about one of the core liberal values of building a society that safe and secure for all our people--yes, even for the gullible schmucks. Unlike the pro-lifers, we are in favor of saving human lives. As one libtard put it: all people are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Don't become what you despise. Just like we don't limit free speech to those you agree with, we don't devalue the lives and liberty of those who, for whatever stupid reasons, are devaluing their own lives.
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