Desperate Americans Buy Kidneys From Peru Poor in Fatal Trade

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/desperate-americans-buy-kidneys-from-peru-poor-in-fatal-trade.html

Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he’d found a way to escape poverty and start a new life in the United States.

An American man had promised to give Picado, a 23-year-old high school dropout who worked as a construction laborer, a job and an apartment in New York if he’d donate one of his kidneys. He jumped at the deal, his mother says.

Three weeks later, in May 2009, Picado came out of surgery at Managua’s Military Hospital, bleeding internally from the artery doctors had severed to remove his kidney, according to medical records. His mother, Elizabeth Tercero, got on her knees next to her son’s bed in the recovery room and prayed, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its June issue.

“I told my boy not to worry, that I would take care of him,” Tercero, 49, says. “But it was too late.” Picado bled to death as doctors tried to save him, according to a coroner’s report. “He was always chasing the American dream, and finally, it cost him his life,” she says.

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shitty doctors did...

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first causes. I hope some prosecutor nails that a-hole to the wall for that shit.

but no, if we're looking for first causes the crushing poverty the donor lived in would be a better start...

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the human body, would be the ultimate first cause, imho.

if I want to sell something that is supposedly mine, why should I not be able to?

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We all know that American lives are so much more valuable than those of other nations. We all know that Americans with means are more valuable than the poor too.

Disgusting.