A team of surgeons from Missouri nearly harvested a father’s organs until his doctor intervened. Then, just two days later, the man woke up. According to the Daily Mail, this all started when Larry Black was shot in the head on the way to his sister’s apartment.
This happened on March 24, 2019, when the victim was only 22 years old. One week later, surgeons were preparing to harvest his organs at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital.
The man’s doctor, Zohny Zohny, rushed into the operating room to stop the harvesting. Black’s heart was still beating, and his doctor had never declared him brain dead.
The 34-year-old doctor heard his patient was about to have his organs harvested without his consent, and it was only his first year as a doctor. This sort of accident could ruin his ca