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Organ & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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Clinical medicinePublic health and policyHealthcare systems and costs

John Oliver investigates the opaque and problematic systems governing organ and body donations in the United States.

John Oliver discusses the systems in place for donating our organs and bodies, why those donations don’t always go where we might think they’re going, and which airline is the Greyhound bus of the sky. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: www.facebook.com/lastweektonight Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: www.twitter.com/lastweektonight Visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: www.hbo.com/lastweektonight

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1 person recommends this

What people say. Recommended as an eye-opening and detailed look at the systemic issues and lack of transparency in body donation programs.

alborzbin Hacker News • Recommends

On “US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died”

I'm not OP but John Oliver had a pretty good episode about hospitals, organ donation organisations and even non-profits, all benefit from a opaque system intentionally designed to hide where bodies go when "disposed" -- Here's a youtube link to the episode (may be blocked in certain regions due to copyright) link to this video

janice1999in Hacker News • Mentions

On “Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains, flesh->leather (2023)”

Jon Oliver did a piece on body donation0. Many people probably wouldn't expect their loved ones body to be used for entertainment in a hotel, sold piece by piece for profit or used to test explosives. 0 link to this video

throwup238in Hacker News • Mentions

On “Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say”

John Oliver did an episode on organ transplants and it is pretty much a clusterf*ck: link to this video It varies state by state but some of the programs are pretty bad, it's no surprise that something like this happened.

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