A few years ago, prior to researching the field of "bloodless medicine", I was under the mistaken impression that bloodless surgery was a field of medicine that sat "outside" of the Watchtower influence and operated as a part of mainstream medicine. Since that time, I have discovered that "bloodless medicine" has been founded and maintained by the Watchtower Society itself.
Bloodless medicine is the Watchtower Society - it has been organized by people who have been trained by the WTS and therefore, the bloodless industry is controlled by the WTS.
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In 2001 an international symposium "Problems of Bloodless Surgery" was held in Moscow, Russia. Included in those who organized the symposium were two representatives from the Watchtower Society, one from the New York International Hospital Information Service and another from the Russian branch of the same organization:
- M. Adzhiboye - surgeon, director of the Russian branch of the International Hospital Information Service, New York, USA;
- MV Cusco - the surgeon, deputy. director of the Russian branch of the International Service for hospital information, St. Petersburg;
Also organizing this symposium was a well known American doctor from Englewood Hospital in New Jersey.
- A. Shander - director of the Center bloodless surgery clinic Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
Shander is intimately connected to the JWs who established organized bloodless surgery clinics and he was a founding member, along with several HLC members, of the Society for Blood Management that was founded the same year that this Moscow symposium was held. Shander has published extensively on bloodless medicine and is a primary mover and shaker for blood management programs. At this symposium in Moscow, he presented several papers from professionals involved with the Englewood Hospital.
The Moscow symposium in 2001 had been preceded by several other conferences that dealt with issues around bloodless surgery and blood management. The collection of papers presented included selected papers presented at a series of international symposiums:
Bloodless surgery on threshold of XXI century - a modern view on transfusion therapy
- Regional Hospital, St. Petersburg, April 19, 1999
MODERN APPROACHES TO Transfusion tactics in oncology and hematology
- Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, April 21, 1999
WAYS OF PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF BLEEDING in obstetrics and gynecology
- Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow, April 23, 1999
The collection also included a number of reports from the conference "Modern approaches to transfusion tactics in surgery and anesthesiology" (Yekaterinburg, June 1, 1999) and "New in Transfusion" (Moscow, 23 May 2000).
One of the papers presented was from Sherri Ozawa, who is a Jehovah's Witness herself. In this paper, she explains the role of the HLC and the expanded role of the "program coordinator" of the bloodless medicine clinics/hospitals and how bloodless medicine clinics are intricately linked to the WTS and people whom the WTS has trained to oversee the advancement of their no blood doctrine.
The content and purpose of the program "Bloodless Medicine"
1 S. Ozawa, the coordinator of the "Bloodless Medicine".
Center for Bloodless Medicine Clinic in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
After an introduction that discusses the JW religious and legal position concerning blood transfusions, Ozawa gives information on how the WTS' Hospital Liasion Committees were formed, and the role of the "Program Coordinator" of the bloodless medicine clinics/hospitals. Within "bloodless" clinics, the program coordinator (a JW trained by the WTS) takes over the role of the HLC. The bloodless clinic, therefore, becomes a highly organized WTS controlled environment.
(translated from Russian)
7 It is important to emphasize that the term "bloodless" in itself can be misleading. This does not mean the absence of bleeding or blood minor role in medicine. The essence of the name is that efforts focus on the conservation and management of the patient's own blood in order to avoid the need for transfusion. Thus, the term "bloodless" reflects the refusal of blood transfusion.
8 As already mentioned, the position of Jehovah's Witnesses before caused misunderstandings between them and the majority of health workers. In this regard there was a need for close cooperation and providing medical information. To do this in the 80s. Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses legal authority) to develop an effective system of cooperation with doctors, hospitals and other medical institutions, operates worldwide. This was possible thanks to the organization in many countries, thousands of the Liaison Committee with the hospitals. The purpose of these committees is to personally go to medical institutions, sharing scientific information on alternative (bloodless) treatment methods. Committees also help to guide patients, especially in complex clinical situations, a doctor with experience in the treatment without blood. Since the Committee cooperates with plenty of doctors and medical institutions, clinics are interested in the improvement of these treatments. Some of them have organized the so-called program of bloodless treatment.
9 Since the care of the sick is part of the problem several doctors - not only of the physician or surgeon - it is clear that such a program should be well organized and coordinated. Thus, the selected program coordinator, who takes over many of the duties previously performed by the Liaison Committee with the hospitals, mentioned above.
10 The structure of the program is as follows. Appointed Coordinator (one or more), preferably having a medical education that has direct contact with doctors and patients, providing information to staff and the public, coordinates the treatment of patients included in the program (control preparation for the operation, collecting and processing information, developing a treatment plan and procedures). Programme Coordinator liaises with the Board of Medical Directors of the program, which is responsible for counseling, treatment monitoring, the study reports, the creation of the hospital protocol and review. The Board of Directors and the medical director of the program is also in communication with the administration of the clinic, which is responsible for approval of treatments and procedures, administrative monitoring of the program, the decision of legal issues.