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  • From: "Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Jehovah witness routinely kill their children becauseof their religious insanityl
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:45:19 -0700

"In a small study published last summer in the Annals
of Surgery, Jabbour and his USC liver-transplant team compared results
for 38 patients — eight Jehovah's Witnesses who did not receive
transfusions, and 30 other patients who did receive blood — in surgeries
performed from 1998 to 2001. All eight Witnesses survived, contrasted
with 27 survivors among the 30 other patients, who received about 4.5
pints of blood on average."

"The
fewer transfusions patients get, doctors have found, the less likely
they are to suffer infections, strokes and allergic reactions."

"Witnesses have many examples of medical personnel warning that they will
die without blood — only to be proven wrong. Avila's committee fields
about 200 such calls a year."

"Staffers at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital jokingly refer to
suit-clad members of the liaison and patient visitation committees as
the "Witness Protection" program. They roam the halls, meet with doctors
and sometimes observe surgeries. Though few have formal medical
training, they are well informed on medical issues, some doctors say.
"They know every argument we're going to make and always have an
alternative," says anesthesiologist Dr. Andy Plisko."

"He attended medical school in India, where blood was often scarce, so
the idea of doing surgery with little or no blood made sense to
Malhotra, who, like the other Fountain Valley doctors, is not a Witness."

These quotes are from Tvo's article.

Simply to believe that there is one way to do something is ludicrous.
Because of the HIV scare in the 80's, and concern over hepatitis C viruses
contaminating blood, there were/are many people concerned about
transfusions, not just Jehovah's Witnesses. For all of those cumulative
reasons, doctors had to push past the norm and look outside the box for
answers. The result is healthcare that supersedes that of the past. Take
a look at the results:

"Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J., which operates
one of the most extensive bloodless management programs for all
patients, not just Witnesses, has the lowest cardiac-surgery mortality
rate in New Jersey, according to state statistics."

"Surgeons and anesthesiologists use special techniques and equipment that
minimize blood loss. They include the Cell Saver, a machine that
cleanses and recycles blood lost during an operation and pumps the red
cells back into the body. A procedure known as acute normovolemic
hemodilution can be used to draw blood from the patient just before
critical bleeding is anticipated in surgery and replace it with
stabilizers, pumping the blood back into the patient later."

"Less-invasive surgical tools in the bloodless arsenal include harmonic
scalpels, which use ultrasound to cut and coagulate tissue; *
*electrocauterizing devices that can sear blood vessels closed;
argon-beam lasers; and blood stoppers such as FloSeal, granules of
specially engineered "clotting factors" that the surgeon dabs on
bleeding tissue to aid coagulation. Where possible, rather than making
large cuts in the flesh that cause more bleeding, they do laparoscopy,
endoscopy and interventional radiologic procedures that kill tumors with
radio-frequency energy and heat, for instance, making removal of a tumor
on the lung far less traumatic."

Just as the cliche states, "Necessity is the mother of invention." Because
of opposition to worn-out techniques, there are now safer, gentler
procedures that greatly benefit not only Jehovah's Witnesses, but anyone
wanting a smarter alternative.

Best wishes,
Melody





  • Re: [Homestead] Jehovah witness routinely kill their children becauseof their religious insanityl, Melody O., 01/31/2005

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