2007-09-05 06:48:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This question seems to ask whether a healthcare professional who is a Jehovah's Witness can administer a blood transfusion to a non-Witness patient. Each healthcare professional among Jehovah's Witnesses must decide this for himself, being careful not to violate his conscience. The article mentioned in this question notes that a medical professional among Jehovah's Witnesses could conscientiously implement any treatment he was instructed to implement.
There are no legal implications if a physician uses one entirely valid medical strategy over another, assuming he (and his insurance company's lawyer) can provide evidence that there was reasonable expectation that the outcome would be comparable or better. Please be assured that there is literally no circumstance in which the infusion of whole blood is superior to modern techniques.
Anti-Witness critics and pro-blood activists conveniently ignore the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe the bible to comment upon minor blood fractions (those derived from plasma, platelets, or red/white cells). It seems remarkable to suggest that one or more of these targeted treatments would be less preferable than the kind of scattershot "see what sticks" methodology represented by old-fashioned blood transfusion.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/hb/
http://watchtower.org/e/vcnb/article_01.htm
2007-09-05 06:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Blood just isn't an issue anymore. Most doctors are against using blood because of hepatitis and AIDS and other STD.
My friend has had open heart surgery one had a kidney removed and all without blood. The new solutions are so good they removed all the blood from a mouse while replacing it with this solution and he lived just fine.
they have a way of salvaging your own blood, sucking it up and filtering it like dialysis and returning it to the body.
I cannot think of a surgery that has not been performed with out blood. People keep making it an issue and it just isn't any more.
2007-09-05 06:58:11 · answer #2 · answered by Vanessa 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Artificial blood transfusions are OK to use by them. They cannot use whole blood or any of its components. This is due to the passage stating to abstain from blood.
I also though it interesting that God warned us to abstain from blood and centuries later we learn that blood transmits several diseases.
2007-09-05 06:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Whaaat?
2007-09-05 06:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Melynda 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋