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Second hand medical appliances? This is not an upward trajectory. At what point is the recipient told they have to give up their pacemaker because it is no longer their turn? Who regulates the "reconditioning" of the used pacemaker? Do the subsequent recipients get to review the history of their "same as new" implant? Are the recipients even told that their "new" pacemaker was implanted in someone who died? I know that would give me a big warm fuzzy. So many questions. Remember the scandal when some auto repair places where caught replacing out of date Air Bags with old ones filled with dirt? Everything was fine until you were in an accident. Why do they want to put a pacemaker that has already participated in one death into the chest of other victims? Because they want us dead.

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Seen Repo Men? Chilling movie.

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Exactly

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I still think this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0

says it all...

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"And Now for something... Completely different: A man with two noses."

Ah, nothing lifts the spirits like Monty Python.♥️

For the good of the country.

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I feel so comforted that death went from 0.0% to 0.2%.

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I have lots of friends with pacemakers. This sounds horrible!!!

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My Grandmother lived to 93yrs young, was on pacemaker #3 (died of cancer not heart failure). Gotta love planned obsolescence in manufacturing. NOT!!!

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I have a defibrillator which includes a pacemaker. It's been swapped for a new one a couple of times because the battery was used up. I asked why they didn't just change the battery instead of replacing the entire unit, and was told they would have to unseal it, which wasn't a good idea. But now it is? I will ask next time my battery expires. Maybe we can rent them from now on.

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Bless you.

I spent some joke time on this thread because I deal w/distress by deflection. I apologize for the appearance of callousness.

This 'inside the chest' miracle device is a wonder.

I pray pseudo science and evil money concerns never victimize patients.

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I believe the medical industry has been recycling/ reusing for decades. Case in point.

In '94 I had reconstructive leg surgery due to an automobile accident that spawned an injury necessitating installation of pins & plates. 2 yrs later, when the hw was removed, I asked if I could have the hw since I paid for it, and was given a cock & bull story as to why not.

What was done with the hw?

Did they just toss it in the trash?

No, they reused it!

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Gallows humor is all i have left.

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(stage direction: said in best Valley Girl voice)

"OMG! This SO COOL!

Like, we're ACTUALLY living in the 2010 movie REPO MEN!"

Plot:

In the near future, the company "The Union" provides expensive prosthesis to improve the lives of the clients. However, the company sends repo men to retrieve the artificial organs for those that do not pay the installments.

Recycling in a Thuneburg world,

Heart me harder Daddy.

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Thank you for sharing the summary / plot. Wow. Just wow. 🤯

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"Resource deprived" is being added to my favorite euphemisms. It implies an unnamed resource was once in his possession, but someone took it. If the "resource" was a pacemaker, then every pacemaker candidate would be reource deprived.

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Good one!

Now I need a Resource Deprived t-shirt.

"You're a Heartbreaker, dream-maker, don't you mess around with me." -P Benatar

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