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Transplant donor wakes up on operating table as doctors prepare to remove his heart
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0:59Now PlayingA nightmare scenario played out at a Kentucky hospital as a transplant donor woke up on the operating table just as doctors were preparing to remove his heart, according to witnesses.
Thomas T.J. Hoover was taken to Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Kentucky in October 2021 after overdosing on drugs. Doctors declared him brain-dead and proceeded to conduct tests to see whether his organs were worth harvesting, NPR reported.
Natasha Miller was one of the people tasked with preserving organs at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital that day. She told the publication that when nurses wheeled Hoover, 36, into the room, he seemed still very much alive.
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