"At first, no one recognized Zohny Zohny in his surgical mask. Then he told the surgical team he was the neurosurgeon assigned to Black's case. Stunned by his orders, the team members pushed back, Zohny said, explaining that they had consent from the family to remove Black's organs. I don't care if we have consent, Zohny recalled telling them. I haven't spoken to the family, and I don't agree with this. Get him off the table."
"And Black said he is haunted by what he remembers from those days while he was lying in a medically induced coma. I heard my mama yelling, he recalled. Everybody was there yelling my name, crying, playing my favorite songs, sending prayers up. He said he had tried to show everyone in his hospital room that he heard them. He recalled knocking on the side of the bed, blinking his eyes, trying to show that he was fighting for his life."
Larry Black Jr. was shot in the head on March 24, 2019, and arrived at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital. A week later a surgical team prepared to remove his organs for donation while his heart was still beating and before a brain-death declaration. Neurosurgeon Zohny Zohny intervened, ordered the team to remove Black from the operating table and insisted he had not authorized organ removal without speaking to the family. Black's family had agreed to donation but expressed doubts. Black, now 28, is a musician and father of three who continues regular physical therapy and is haunted by memories from a medically induced coma.
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