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
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 …