As a growing number of doctors now recognize, blood is the most dangerous drug in their arsenal. Why? It’s much more than a drug: transfusing it amounts to an organ transplant (albeit a liquid organ), yet it’s administered with none of the precautions associated with other organ transplants. Its use could sometimes be described as casual. As one doctor told …
Augusta couple in the NY Times
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/us/bloodless-lung-transplants-for-jehovahs-witnesses.html?smid=pl-share
REMINDER: Bloodless Medicine Seminar Today
A reminder of a previous post (Oct. 4*) the Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program will host a free community seminar Saturday, Oct. 20 highlighting techniques enabling medical and surgical treatment without blood transfusions. The seminar, themed “Bloodless Medicine and Patient Blood Management,” is free and will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at …
Bloodless Medicine
Some people think bloodless medicine is a subject only Jehovah’s Witnesses – known for their refusal of blood transfusions on religious grounds – are interested in. As it turns out, a feature length film has what one reviewer called a “mind-numbing” 110 minutes of medical evidence and interviews with doctors and other medical professionals who are against the practice of …