JWs---Doctors---And Ethical Decisions!

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  Voyager

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  Health region?s finances could be better: Fan
  The Prairie North Health Region?s third quarter financial statement puts the health region?s spending in the black, but the most expensive quarter for the health region is just beginning.

  Ian Ross
  Wednesday February 02, 2005

  Lloydminster Meridian Booster ? The Prairie North Health Region?s third quarter financial statement puts the health region?s spending in the black, but the most expensive quarter for the health region is just beginning.

  Traditionally the fourth quarter ? between January and the end of March ? costs the region more than any other time during the year.
  While the region is operating with a $404,000 surplus, David Fan, CEO of the Prairie North Health Region says that?s not as significant as it sounds.
  ?In the context of a $137 million budget, $404,000 at the end of December is nice, but I wish it was bigger,? he said. ?Going into these three months ? January through March ? they are typically fairly heavy months in terms of expenses and activities that we would see in our health care facilities.?

  Fan said he credits the surplus to the staff and physicians who work for the health region because they have been watching every expense incurred in the region?s health facilities.
  ?The last little while we see the flu and admissions tend to be heavy,? said Fan. ?All the beds are full and the level of activity is increased. We know every year that is the case and try to climb ahead and be prepared for it.?
  As the region prepares for its heaviest three months, it is also establishing a regional ethics framework to deal with what kind of treatment certain people will get when they come to the hospitals.

  Doctors deal with ethical decision all the time. The committee and framework is being established to discuss what happens if someone refused to have a certain treatment that is necessary to sustaining life ? such as a Jehovah?s Witness not having a blood transfusion.
  ?How do you deal with it when a family, because of religious grounds, refuse certain procedures?? said Fan. ?There are issues of treating minors ? often we get into that and ?do we, don?t we,? dilemma. Who has the right to consent for a minor? We need a rational framework which will give us a way of dealing with those decisions.?

  The Prairie North Health Region has not had to deal with a severe ethical problem yet, said Fan. However, that doesn?t mean it won?t happen.
  ?We will try to get experts from different fields to come together and sit on this committee to help us make those ethical decisions,? said Fan. ?It?s time to have a balanced approach to making those ethical decisions and we want to invite physicians, social workers and legal professions to sit on this committee to try and bring a variety of viewpoints to a decision making process.?
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  willyloman

  Whenever I read something like this in the popular press, I marvel that for all their alleged billions of hours of preaching and magazine/book "placements" over some 120 years, the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses are known among the masses ONLY for their whacky doctrines, i.e., no birthdays or holidays, no blood transfusions.

  My own experience suggests you could poll thousands of people before you found even one who would tell you JWs exist to preach "the kingdom good news," or any words to that effect. Remarkable, isn't it, that the entire preaching campaign these past 120 years has been for nothing?
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  Voyager

  Willyloman:

  You know willy, that is really a good point! When you stop and think about it, your point has a lot of meat to it. All these years of preaching, yet the real issues have nothing to do with preaching.

  When you ask someone about JWs, usually their first answer is (Well they don't celebrate holidays)--or --(The don't take transfusions), the (preaching) aspect of the subject seems to always come up later, when the discussion is almost over. As if the (preaching) that JWs do, takes the back seat to the other issues.

  Thanks!
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  willyloman

  As if the (preaching) that JWs do, takes the back seat to the other issues.

  Voyager: Not only do people place the preaching work WAY down on the list of things they know about dubs, they cannot begin to tell you what message is being preached.

  Dub at door: "Did you know the end of the system of things actually came in 1914 and Jesus is now King of the Universe and just waiting for a signal to destroy virtually all human life on this planet, every man, woman and child except for baptized, dedicated Jehovah's Witnesses? And that the only way you can escape sure destruction is to set aside everything you're doing, drop all your friends and acquaintances, and immediately start to study this 192 page red book with me -- it's all Bible based, of course -- and pray to God that Armageddon doesn't come before you've learned enough to embrace Jehovah's earthly organization and ask for protection?"

  Householder: "Whoa! I've never heard that before."