The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery- Conclusion of Bloosd and Jehovah's Witnesses

To assit doctors in providing treatment without the use of blood, Jehovah's Witnesses have develop;ed a helpful liason service.  Presently, more than 1,400 Hospitall Liason Committees worldwide are equipped to provide doctors and researchers with medical literature from a data base of over 3,000 articles related to bloodless medicine and surgery.  "Not only Jehovah's Witnesses, but patients in general, are today less likely to be given unnecessary blood transfusions because of the work at the Witnesses' Hospital Liason Committees,"  notes Dr. Charles Baron, a professor at Boston Law School.

The information on bloodless medicine and surgery tha that has been compiled by Jehovah's Witnesses has been of benefit to many in the medical field.  For example, in preparing material for a book entitled Auotransfusio: Therapeutic Principles and Trends, the authors later stated:  "In all our reading  on this subject, we have neve seen suc a concise, complete list of strategies to avoid homo lugous trasfusion.

Progress in the medical field has caused many to consider bloodless medicine.  Where will this lead us? Professor Luc Montagnier, discoverer of the AIDS virus states:  "The evolution of our understanding in this field shows that blood transfusions  must one day dies out." In the meantime, alternatives to blood are already saving lives.

Next time: The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery - What Some Doctors Say

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