What a great article from The New Yorker. Talks about our stand on Blood

[Greg Dent]

Here you go. The full article.

 

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine

[pnutts]

That is one of 3 articles on it. Has been discussed before, but a refresher is always welcome.

 

You can see what some hospital systems are doing currently by typing in Google search

"Medstar  Bloodless" or "Englewood Bloodless" or "Hopkins Bloodless".

You get the idea.

 

Mike Hoffman at Medstar is a witness coordinator. The one male nurse Dick Verstraite, CCRN is a hoot.

Edited December 20, 2015 by pnutts

[hatcheckgirl]

Back in 2011, our state government adopted a bloodless surgery policy, more to do with ballooning costs of transfusing, but also in response to the decades of bloodless surgeries performed on Jehovah's Witnesses with very good health results.

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/9123230/wa-pioneers-bloodless-surgery/

 

http://noblood.org/

A complete list of hospitals worldwide who offer bloodless surgery, including the one above in WA, Australia.