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A Long Island doctor is demanding that his estranged wife give him back the kidney he donated to her seven years ago. Dr. Richard Batista's lawyer Dominic Barbara says his client would also be satisfied with the value of the kidney: $1.5 million.
Newsday reports that Batista married wife Dawnell in 1990 and that he donated the kidney in 2001. According to Batista, their marriage was on the rocks then, but "My first priority was to save her life. The second bonus was to turn the marriage around." Dawnell Batista filed for divorce in 2005. Dr. Batista told WCBS 880, "She had an affair, then would not reconcile, then handed me divorce papers as I was going into surgery trying to save another person's life.
Medical ethicists tells Newsday "the case is a nonstarter."Arthur Caplan at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics said Batista's chances of getting his kidney or money back is "somewhere between impossible and completely impossible." And Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics medical ethicist Robert Veatch said, "it's illegal for an organ to be exchanged for anything of value" and organ donation is legally a gift.
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It's 100 percent illegal to pay anyone for an organ donation in this country, so there's no way he's getting anything for giving her his kidney. You're not even allowed to pay a donor's cab fare to and from the hospital. Forget it.
I'm still a little confused with what happens during a kidney transplant. Which person has the functioning kidneys? Which person has the non-functioning kidneys? It's soooooo confusing!
If only there were a simple yet informative graphic that could show me what this procedure entails.
Ha! Clearly Gothamist dropped the ball on this one. Perhaps an animated gif to better explain the process to us "non-doctor" types.
That graphic reminds me of the beans I had with dinner last night.
@4 - were they some fava beans and a nice Chianti?
Preferrably with the sweetbreads, but a little soy ginger marinade sure perks up any kidney!
Dr. Richard Batista's lawyer Dominic Barbara is the stupidest lawyer in NY or is being paid off by the ex-wife to make the ex-husband the biggest douche on the planet.
How stupid an argument do you have to make to a sitting judge before getting into trouble?
Figures - they are from Massapequa.
I hope he loses ALL of his patients because of this.
And of course, she is a b*tch for cheating AND asking for a kidney!!
She could be running around with a cocktail in hand saying "Really?! Try 'n get it!! Mwah hah hah!" Really dumb claim.
I would give my husband a kidney, piece or liver, or whatever parts I could give even if he cheated on me. I would still love him. When you really love someone that never changes (unfortunately for these two)and I would want him to live no matter if he were with me or broke my heart.That's marriage.
And now, I will be ridiculed by the feminists. Bring it on.
this dude is a textbook Chump. first of all the dude knew his whore wife was sleeping around and still gave her a kidney? wtf? She's also the one who filed for divorce first. What kind of cold hearted cumbucket just divorces the one who saved their lives? This dude deserves to get nothing for being a dumb chump and this is a lesson to all of you to never donate organs to loved ones.
1.5 mil for a kidney? It wasn't even new.
she should hope she doesn't wake up one day in a bathtub filled with ice.
LOL...
what's the difference between impossible and completely impossible?
How does one assess the value of a kidney precisely? Compare it to the going rate on the black market???
She was having an affair and he gave her a kidney? That is absolutely demoralizing.