{"id":9344,"date":"2010-06-15T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2010-06-15T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:30:56","slug":"buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9344","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/37703708\/ns\/health-health_care\/'>The family of a 28-year-old<\/a> British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been \"horrified\" and have lodged a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott in February received a double lung transplant from a donor who had smoked for three decades. She died in July of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Britain's top transplant official Chris Rudge defended the decision and said <b>patients should be told they are not getting a \"brand new\" organ<\/b>. He said on the BBC that \"lungs from a smoker can be working perfectly normally.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should've checked the LUNGFAX report.<\/p>\n<p>\/rimshot<br \/>\n\/shame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a 28-year-old British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been \"horrified\" and have lodged a complaint. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott in February received a double lung transplant from a donor who had smoked for three decades. She died in July of pneumonia. Britain's [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}