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29. Not a valid excuse, at all.

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:28 PM

Apr 2016

1. JW's can give their OWN blood, in ADVANCE, to be held in the event of a blood transfusion being needed. It's not a "transfusion" if it's your own--it's a "re-infusion."

2. Surgical techniques nowadays greatly reduce need for transfusions, anyway--they're rare, not common, with hip surgery.

3. There are ways to recirculate the patient's own blood ON THE TABLE.

4. They can give patients iron ahead of surgery to increase red blood cell count, and there are "blood substitutes" that can be used without going against the laws of their religion.

Being a JW should be no impairment whatsoever to scheduled surgery. That's just a canard. It was a chronic condition, he could have given blood every so often, that could have been frozen, to have a "stash" available if needed.

This guy was worth three HUNDRED MILLION. For whatever reason, either his own intransigence or ignorance or fear of doctors, he didn't get the care he needed.

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/blood/quality-alternatives-to-transfusion/

http://cjonline.com/news/2013-05-06/kansas-jehovahs-witness-saved-blood-substitute#

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