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Heidi Klessig

Dr. Heidi Klessig, MD, is a retired board-certified anesthesiologist and author of "The Brain Death Fallacy" who speaks and writes on organ donation ethics at respectforhumanlife.com.

Oct 5, 2026

18:09
And this just seems like yet another example, uh, Heidi, of, um, doctors who are so focused on organ donation that they are refusing to acknowledge the signs of life and the fact that this patient doesn't actually qualify for organ donation if they're not in fact deceased.
18:27
deceased.Thank you, Jenna, so much for having me on the program.
18:31
This, this is a very troubling case.
18:34
You know, we all remember the COVID hysteria, and this is just one more example.
18:39
This poor man's story was first, uh, reported by Children's Health Defense in their, uh, publication, The Defender.
18:46
This man comes to the hospital with a painful leg and ends up being shunted down the COVID protocol, treated with remdesivir.
18:56
Apparently, they missed that he may have had a blood clot in the leg that was giving this man the trouble, and then perhaps it sounds like this blood clot went to this man's brain, giving him a stroke, put-- getting him on a ventilator, getting a incorrect diagnosis of brain death.
22:42
Uh, what has changed in terms of the protocols with that new law?
24:03
Yeah
24:03
... all ever since 1968.
24:05
So if it, the first justification was utilitarian.
24:09
Free up ICU beds, facilitate organ donation.
24:13
Then, you know, finally someone did a study, did an autopsy study in, in 1971, '72, where they actually looked at autopsied brains of people who had been declared brain dead to see are, are the brains destroyed? No, they're not.
24:29
Uh, of, of this autopsy study, 10 of the brains were grossly normal.
24:33
Less than half, only 40%, showed diffuse destruction.

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74:46
Mm.
SilkHOST
10:08
Right.
10:10
[chuckles] And he just gave me this long look over his surgical mask and he said, "Why don't you give a consciousness-blocking drug just in case?" And he walked away.
10:22
And I'll tell you what, that made no sense to me.
10:26
But, you know, everyone else, you know, here I am.
10:29
Everyone else is going along with this.
10:31
I'm just the newbie and, and I just assumed someone must understand this in a way that I do not.
10:37
And to my shame and regret, I just went along with it.

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SilkHOST
42:19
Mm-hmm.
7:43
Uh, and, and that's just unbelievable because there, there are doctors that actually want to help people, but that goes against the protocol of, uh, the, the medical industrial complex making billions and billions of dollars.
7:58
You know, and you said the right word there.
8:00
The word is protocol.
8:02
And that, that has been a change even, you know, during the time I was in practice.
8:07
Um, it-- When I first entered practice, there was a lot more autonomy for doctors to, to think for themselves, to make their own decisions individually based for their patients.
8:18
But over the course of my, my career, it became more and more protocol driven.
8:23
This is the protocol.

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19:22
I, I'm trying to balance all this out and make it make sense, but I can't.

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