Advocating the process of organ donations here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The treating physician of the anesthesiology department of N.T.U. Hospital, Liu had assisted in the process of organ donations for twelve years, he worked on the front lines, in diagnosing the patients as brain dead, a recipient of the 12th Annual Organ Donors Advocates. Liu told, that he’s an anesthesiologist, that in his off-hours, he’d, not done what he did at work, assisted in the process of organ donations, but the organ donations team works towards “helping those lives that’s ended, come full circle”.
When Liu was working in the Yunlin Branch of the N.T.U. Hospitals, there was a young man who’d, gotten into a fatal crash, and this young man’s family wasn’t well-to-do, but the families knew that their child was willing to help others, and wanted, to donate his organs, and in the end, the organs, weren’t, donated out, but it’d, moved Liu, who’s only begun, working to confirm when a patient is, brain dead.
Liu believed, that the hospitals and medical staff who works in organ transplant are all working in goodwill, in helping the “lives that were lost gain new meanings”. He said, as he’d discussed the matter of organ donations with the families, he’d needed to, put himself in their shoes completely, in the wards, he saw a lot of families, holding back their sorrows, and still managed, to sign the papers for organ donations, it’d made him feel, that working in harvesting and transplanting the organs, is a calling; that even if the families decided not to donate in the end, it’s, an alternative, sort of love.
Some doctors don’t want to determine the patients as brain-dead, believed, that making the call goes beyond what doctors are, supposed to do, but for Liu, he believed, that the process of organ donations had become, legalized and systemized, it’d, made him feel at ease, following the procedures, to make the calls, and, the process to which he used in determining is taken, very, thoroughly, watching the reflexes, the changes in how breathing stopped, and he’d, needed to stay completely, focused in every single action, to protect the patients, their families, as well as the medical teams, working alongside him.
In the process of watching how the families are, willing, to sign the organ donation papers, he’d gained a brand new perspective on “death” and “dying”, “death” is heading toward a brand new life, dying, is finishing this lifetime, symbolizing, the continuation of life in an alternative, sort of way.
And so, this, is on how the frontline of organ donation worked, the doctors are the ones, deciding whether or not the patient is, considered “dead”, and, in order to make this call, the doctors must have enough respect for the dead, and honoring the wishes of the deceased, as well as tailoring to the losses of the ones who are, left behind.