Posts by OrphanCrow

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"Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

by OrphanCrow in

patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

OrphanCrow

The Esperanza Intercommunity Hospital in Yorba Linda, California. This hospital was owned by Jehovah's Witnesses.

Ron Lapin worked at this hospital in the early 80s, after he had ran out of other hospitals to work at. He had a little problem with malpractice suits following him around.

Dr. Herk Hutchins. He was NOT working at the Esperanza Hospital when Lapin started there. Hutchins was retired when he met Lapin. Hutchins, a JW, was the "medical adviser" for an insurance company owned by himself and two other JWs at the time they approached Lapin with an offer. The insurance company sold health insurance only to married JW couples and only if both were JWs in good standing. They asked Lapin to put in a "hot-line" so that they could route JW patients to him.

Ron Lapin was not part of Dr. Herk Hutchins surgical team but Lapin did manage to talk old Herk into being part of his team - the old guy donned scrubs and assisted Lapin eventually.

Seeber/Shander say that "Critics labelled him a quack". Now there is an understatement. For details and background on Lapin's shady life:

The rise and fall of Ron Lapin

Note that the hospital that Seeber/Shander refer to - Esperanza Intercommunity Hospital - was investigated by the California Medical Association and the facility's management replaced.

Ron Lapin was unable to get a medical doctor's degree in the States (he was an osteopathic surgeon) and resorted to eventually getting one from a Netherlands Hospital in 1983 - Lapin submitted his doctoral paper as from Tel Aviv and in it, he reported on 4,632 JW patients who he operated on from 1973 to 1982.

The Feasibility and Physiological Aspects of Anesthesia and Surgery Without the Use of Homologous Blood Transfusions

SeeberShander say that Lapin started the first blood management/bloodless journal. Yes, Lapin had to. He didn't have anybody to call on as an 'expert' to back him up when he was being investigated by the CMA - and there wasn't any scientific literature that supported him. He had to start a journal - he needed material to present to the CMA when he was being investigated and couldn't find any or anybody...so he made up his own credibility. And so was born the 'evidence based' source that blood management needed.

The one event that happened in 1979 that is significant, and the one that I think was the reason that the WTS made the hospital committees official, was an event that Ron Lapin was somewhat involved in.

The Fluosol- DA trials. The blood substitute that was going to be a miracle. The product developed and supplied by a Japanese company - Green Cross. The first human trials.

Ron Lapin claims that he was approached by a Japanese doctor who wanted Lapin to help with setting up clinical trials for this new product (an oxygen carrier that mice could be submerged in and still live) and the reason that he wanted Ronny's help was because of Herk's Hot-line and the connections Ronny had to the target test group - Jehovah's Witnesses.

That was in 1979. The trials started in November 79 but the product had received FDA approval in February.

Ronny got really angry that he was not the first doctor to use Fluosol-DA in the States - that honor went to someone else and of course, the first patient was a JW.

Even though Ronny thought that he was the special chosen one to get Fluosol-DA into the US market, what is evident is that the FDA approval was already in place when Lapin got involved. And the other thing is that the FDA gave approval only to use Jehovah's Witness as a test group. Which means that there were was Jehovah's Witness representation at the FDA hearing leading up to the Feb 1979 approval. Somebody from the Watchtower would have had to attend those hearings.

All of those negotiations - the FDA approval, the contracts to supply test subjects to Green Cross in Japan...all of that kind of administration that would go along with that type of testing, would require an official backing for the Jehovah's Witnesses test group. And, the need to take control - first taking the power away from these somewhat self organized groups and then establishing the "official" hospital committees - was vital for the long term plan. And, the need for a tax-free place to park the funds that would change hands would become vital at this point. As well as the funds that the WT would expect to come rolling in from their investment into the biotech world.

The WT bloodless cult hit the big time in 1979 - they thought they had hit the jackpot.

Instead, Fluosol-DA 20 was found to be unsafe.

But that didn't stop them. A few needless deaths from Fluosol-DA 20 shouldn't matter. After all, they were going to die anyways, right?

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"Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

by OrphanCrow in

patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

OrphanCrow

From Penton's book...picking up where he left off...:

But the whole matter caused some bad feelings, particularly among those elders who had given so much service to their brethren. The society's arguments over personal and family rights seemed facetious at best to many who were quite aware of the fact that a Jehovah's witness could be and would be disfellowshipped for voluntarily accepting a blood transfusion. Also, it seemed equally evident that unless Brooklyn itself thought of something first, it was not willing to accept new ideas. Then, finally, some of the elders affected negatively by the clampdown began to feel that the Governing Body cared little about human health or welfare, only the preaching work. Curiously, however, the Governing Body soon recognized the value of what it was to dub "Hospital Liaison Committees" and gave a green light for the re-establishment of those bodies.

Okay. This is a good place to stop and fill in some blanks and, at the same time, maybe answer Penton's curiosity. Why did the WT re-establish the hospital committees?

I am going to assume that this happened in 1979 - the date that Seeber/Shander gave in their textbook. That makes sense. Because it is time to look at another doctor that Seeber/Shander elevate to "pioneer" of the blood management movement - Ron Lapin.

It is Ron Lapin and his surgical practice that became an important cog in the HLC machine. His story fills in the gap between Brooklyn giving the thumbs down to the hospital committees in the mid 70s and their sudden reversal of heart in 1979.

After claiming that "bloodless programs" came about through the efforts of the HLC, The Seeber/Shander duo introduces Ron Lapin this way:

This laid the foundation for organized “bloodless programs.” One
of the hospitals with such a program was the Esperanza
Intercommunity Hospital in Yorba Linda, California,
where a high percentage of patients were Witnesses. Herk
Hutchins, an experienced surgeon and a Witness himself,
was known for his development of an iron - containing
formula for blood - building. Among his team was the
young surgeon Ron Lapin, who was later famed for his
pioneering work in the area of bloodless therapies. Critics
labeled him a quack. Nevertheless, he continued and was
later honored for opening one of the first organized
bloodless centers in the world, as well as for publishing
the first journal on this topic, and for his efforts to teach
his colleagues. During his career, he performed thousands
of bloodless surgeries.

So much to say. Where to start? The inaccuracies in Seeber/Shander's account are many. And bad.

Firstly, I would like to say that the blood management is really pulling from extremes. First, they give credit to one of the best heart surgeons the world has ever known - "Denton Cooley is our pioneer!". A surgeon at the top of his field. And then...they go and scrape the bottom of the barrel and pull up...Ronny Lapin. The bloodless butcher.

What a shame. To put Denton Cooley's achievements on the same page as Ron Lapin.

Time for a break...Ronny is a full installment all by himself. I will return (soon) with Herk's Hot-Line and Ronny's Hot-Knife...and what was the real reason that the WTS took the HLC under its wing in 1979.

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"Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

by OrphanCrow in

patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

OrphanCrow

vidiot: I often wondered, "shouldn't the Biblical injunction itself be enough? Why go to all that extra effort?"
Now I know why they did it.

In part. Things get waaaay more complicated than that. We are just getting started.

For an idea of what challenges in the courts were taking place in the States in the years leading up to the early 60s, this is a webpage with a lot of court cases listed (I ignore the commentary). This page just deals with the cases concerning minors:

http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/bloode.html

So there is the legal aspect. That's complicated. But you can see how a 'scientific' view would be beneficial in trying to force the courts to allow babies and children to die.

WonderofYou: I am curious about the coming info about HLC. Are there HLC's in each cirlce, each country, each continent or only one worldwide? Are their HLC conventions each year. How do they update? What is their job in contrast to the physicians, the anaesthelogoist? Only talking about what the physicians already knows anyway? Translating jargon to non-expert patient? Producting - excuse me - "guinea pigs"?

All good questions. It's complicated. This will take a long time. The HLC has evolved and changed forms - from its "humble beginnings" to its present day status is quite the journey.

The Seeber/Shander duo present the formation of the HLC in simplistic terms:

In the early 1960s,
representatives of Jehovah’ s Witnesses started visiting
physicians to explain the reasons why transfusions were
refused by the Witness population. They often offered
literature that dealt with techniques that were acceptable
to Witness patients, informing physicians of the availability
of so - called transfusion alternatives. In 1979 the governing
body of the Jehovah’ s Witnesses announced the
formation of Hospital Liaison Committees (see Chapter
20).

Chapter 20 is the one on Law and Ethics. And the one that defined the founding principle of blood management as "holy scripture". The current day HLC is described in more detail.

For now, I want to deal with that big gap - the one that leaps from the early '60s to 1979. It is very likely that Dr. Cooley's efforts resulted in networking among the Jehovah's Witnesses. That would account for the date that Seeber/Shander give as the 60s.

This practice of sharing information and networking moved across the border in the early 70s. James Penton, in his third edition of Apocalypse Delayed, speaks of the early "hospital committees" that were formed in Canada:

...In the early 70s a number of leading Canadian Witnesses (including Watch Tower officials at the Canadian branch) had organized "hospital committees" to act as chaplains for Witnesses in hospitals, nursing homes, and senior citizens' homes. Among other things, they were interested in developing contacts with doctors and hospitals so that Witness patients would not have to face the possibility of being forced to accept blood transfusions, a procedure which the society had long taught to be scripturally unacceptable to Jehovah's Witnesses. *

*note to the above:
*At the time of the establishment of the hospital committees, a number of large meetings were held in Toronto at which numerous prominent Canadian Witnesses were present. As a result of the "hospital work", three books containing photocopied articles from medical journals and the popular press were produced and bound at the society's Toronto branch. These were Jehovah's Witnesses - Alternatives to Blood Transfusions in Adults, Jehovah's Witnesses - Alternatives to Blood Transfusions in Minors, and Jehovah's Witnesses - Alternatives to Blood Transfusions. Most of the material in them was compiled by Alex Trost, a former Watchtower missionary and chemist from Hamilton, Ontario. Interestingly, in preparing these books, no attention was paid to copyright laws.

One of these volumes is now available for download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4oXVPm4nrmfcGVHako0OVZuSUU/view
This volume contains a variety of material - an introduction by Dr. Dixon, the WT doctor, which contains a subtle threat that if doctors chose not to let JWs refuse blood for themselves and their children, that they will face court action. And an article by Dr. Kevorkian in support of child sacrifice.And a bunch of newspaper clippings and medical studies. And WT publications.

In a short time, the idea of establishing such committees spread from Toronto to a number of Canadian cities, and "hospital" or "blood committees", as they were called, were generally very popular with local Witnesses. For the first time since the 1920s, certain Witness elders began to comfort the dying, encourage the convalescing, and show regular attention to their brothers except when pressing them to proselytize or disciplining them for some infraction of organizational law.**

** Committees were established in a number of communities in both eastern and western Canada. I was personally involved in helping organize one of these hospital committees which for a time was very active and effective.

I can attest to how effective those hospital committees were.

They worked like a well oiled machine by 1974 in Western Canada. Well oiled and well prepared with full hospital cooperation. So well oiled that the JW hospital machine didn't even stop long enough to do what James Penton probably did - visit the patient. I could see Penton being a caring person and actually visiting the patient and give comfort to the mother.

The hospital committee in a certain city in Canada offered ZERO comfort. They offered NO spiritual guidance. None. Their focus was one thing and one thing only - get that baby in the operating room and don't use blood on him. And don't ever, ever, let that mother of the baby in the room when the forms are signed. And don't bother even looking at that baby. Or the mother of the baby. That is how well those hospital committees worked. At least, it worked that way in the hospital I delivered my baby at. Their "visiting' and "chaplaincy"?...eh...not so much. In fact, none.

The head offices of the society in Brooklyn soon put a stop to the hospital committees. ***
***A letter from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Canadian Branch, 150 Bridgeland Ave., Toronto, Ontario, to William D. Johnson, 2726-25 Ave., Vancouver, BC, dated 4 October 1974 quotes extensively from a letter sent to the Canadian branch from the society's Brooklyn office. One quotation from that letter states: "We have not encouraged the elders in general or any committee of elders in a particular city to visit all the hospitals as if they are the representatives and spokesmen for all of Jehovah's Witnesses in that city. When it comes to medical treatment, they definitely are not".

Penton explains reasons given for Brooklyn not supporting the hospital committees and the reactions:

Some elders throughout Canada had complained about them for several reasons. For one thing, they had been developed by individual Witnesses in Toronto without express sanction from Brooklyn. Second, many of the elders involved on the committees began to become prominent with ordinary Witnesses, something which evoked both concern and some jealousy on the part of a number of their peers. And most important from the standpoint of those devoted primarily to the preaching work, if certain elders were spending so much time in "hospital work", it was asked how they could take the lead in field service.Surprisingly, the Governing Body, in abolishing the Canadian hospital committees, argued that they tended to violate private and family medical rights and could come between the individual patient and his doctor. In addition, Brooklyn held that there should be no special committee chosen by local bodies of elders for special tasks without the society's consent. If shepherding or chaplaincy work was to be done, it would have to be carried on by all elders on an unorganized basis.The society's Canadian branch seemed somewhat embarrassed, and in a few places the hospital committees continued to operate in spite of the Governing Body's dictum. ****
**** this was especially so in the Toronto area

*sorry...I hit the post button accidentally...more coming. Long quote from Penton..this could take a while

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What is the purpose of life?

by slimboyfat in

while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

OrphanCrow

TheRebel: With modern day technology and a modern day application, I wouldn't be disappointed if some threads got locked.

But...if that happened, some people would lose their purpose in life

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"Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

by OrphanCrow in

patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

OrphanCrow

vidiot: I wonder if this'll ever have a chance at coming back and biting them on the ass?

It might. Maybe someday the world will wake up and realize that blood management guidelines are being set by the same religion that promoted radioactive belts and Abrahm's electronic box.

The next part of the Seeber/Shander historical account of blood management addresses the legal problems that the JWs encountered when refusing blood:

Refusing blood transfusions on religious grounds was
not easy. Repeatedly, patients were physically forced to
take donor blood, using such high - handed methods as
incapacitation by court order, strapping patients to the
bed (even with the help of police officers), and secretly
adding sedatives to a patient’s infusion.

And that is the reason that is used as to why the JWs entered the realm of medical/scientific justification for their blood refusal - "refusing blood transfusions of religious grounds was not easy". No doubt it was not easy to convince the courts that child sacrifice was still considered to be a "religious" activity. What the authors have left out of this WT flavored account of 'persecution' is the hundreds and hundreds of court cases where the courts had to step in and save a child's life because the parent's believed in child sacrifice.

This next sentence identifies the very beginnings of the HLC (long before it was known as such):

In the early 1960s,
representatives of Jehovah ’ s Witnesses started visiting
physicians to explain the reasons why transfusions were
refused by the Witness population.

The authors then relate the development of the HLC - which I will return to - but for now, I want to skip to the part that keeps this in chronological order - the part that talks about Denton Cooley. That, too, was happening in the early 60s.

Denton Cooley was a world renowned heart surgeon - the first to do open heart surgery and the first to transplant an artificial heart. The authors have put Cooley's contribution after talking about events in the late 70s to make it appear like Cooley was responding to the JWs' efforts to 'educate' the medical profession:

Among the first to rise to the challenge was the heart
surgeon Denton Cooley of Texas. In the early 1960s, his
team devised methods to treat Witness patients. He
described the techniques in an article, “ Open heart
surgery in Jehovah ’ s Witnesses, ” published in 1964 in The
American Journal of Cardiology . In 1977, Cooley reported
his experiences with more than 500 patients [2] .
Cooley ’ s example was followed by many other courageous
physicians.

The impression that Seeber/Shander gives the reader is that Dr. Cooley devised his methods in order to treat JWs. That is not true.

Dr. Cooley devised a no blood prime method in order to treat everybody. The JWs just happened to be able to benefit from a procedure that was meant to be bloodless all along. Cooley devised a bloodless method in order to do open heart surgery on all his patients - he did not "rise to the challenge" put forth by a group with invented high risk factors. Dr. Cooley rose to the challenge of how to do open heart surgery on everyone - a procedure that needed the heart to be free of blood.

In his memoirs 1000,000 Hearts, Dr. Cooley describes his early efforts with using a blood prime to start the heart and lung machine in order to divert the blood away from the heart (pg 107):

For the earliest open heart operations using an elaborate system with a Gibbon console. blood infused with heparin was used to "prime" the system, as with any other pump. On the morning of surgery, blood had to be collected from ten or twelve donors of the same blood type. This greatly complicated the procedures. Often, even though we started to collect the blood before dawn, we didn't get enough matching units to start a procedure until the afternoon or evening. Although the red cells were cross-matched, the other blood components couldn't be tested. Once the individual units were mixed together, minor incompatibilities sometimes produced adverse reactions. This problem was originally described by Dr. Howard Gadboys and Dr. Robert Litwak, who believed that it could be solved by using a non-blood prime. They had used this method successfully in dogs.

So Dr. Cooley started using a non blood primer in his open heart surgeries:

In 1961 my associate Dr. Atthur Beall and I began to perform dog experiments with a prime consisting of 5 percent dextrose in distilled water, and we were impressed with the results. We began to use this solution instead of blood to prime the pump for open heart operations in our patients. Before long, my team and I were doing eight or ten opeartions a day, whereas institutions that still used a blood prime did only one or two operations a week. By August 1962 we had operated on one hundred patients using this technique, which not only greatly facilitated open heart surgery but also eliminated blood-borne illnesses. Our simplified methods were a major advance. Within a year we'd done 241 cases using a non-blood prime. I believe that my popularizing this technique silenced the remaining critics of open heart surgery and led to the rapid acceleration in its growth. For this reason. I think it is one of my most important contributions. Although others, including Dr. Nazih Zuhdi and Dr, Allen Greer, had used a similar technique in a few cases, no one had pushed to make it an acceptable method.

Dr. Cooley does not describe his motivation for using a no blood prime as "rising to the challenge" of operating on Jehovah's Witnesses in response to the JWs setting up visiting committees. That didn't happen. The JWs had nothing at all to do with Dr. Cooley's innovation. Nothing. But, they were able to take advantage of his brilliance:

The use of a bloodless prime also allowed me to pioneer open heart surgery on patients of the Jehovah's Witness faith. Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to receive blood transfusions or any other blood products because of their interpretation of several verses in the Bible. Refusal of blood places them at high risk for any surgical procedure in which serious blood loss could be an issue. Unless the operation is done quickly and precisely, the patient could bleed to death. Shortly after beginning to use a non-blood priming solution, I did the world's first open heart surgery on a Jehovah's Witness. That was in May 1962, and within a year I had done six more cases.* In no instance was blood given before, during, or after these operations. the fact that I could operate very quickly meant that less blood was lost, so my cases were more likely to be successful. For many years I was the only surgeon willing to operate on Jehovah's Witnesses.**
* My first seven Jehovah's Witness cases are described in detail in The American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 13 (1964), pp. 779-781.
** My team and I would eventually operate on more than 1,500 Jehovah's Witnesses

This is the only place in Cooley's memoirs that he mentions the Jehovah's Witnesses. Cooley went on to perform 100,000 heart surgeries and the JWs only made up a small part of that monumental feat. Almost all of Cooley's open heart procedures were bloodless - it was the nature of the procedure itself - it had nothing to do with the JW blood refusal. Nothing. Cooley's methods were not a response to the JWs- they were a response to his profession. The JWs have used Cooley's innovations to promote their no blood ideology. They have tried to take credit for something that are not entitled to.
I have a little bit more to say about Dr. Cooley and the JWs' attempt to ride his coat tails but I need to take a break...

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How Dangerous are Blood Transfusions really?

by TheWonderofYou in

this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.

this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.

the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.

OrphanCrow

WonderofYou: Shannon or Shander?

Both of them.

Shander is the doctor face and Shannon Farmer is the WT face. Farmer shadows Hofmann - they are blood buddies

SABM/NATA guys - the unholy alliance.

Who is this fellow? Prof. Zacharowski. Is he a JW?

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How Dangerous are Blood Transfusions really?

by TheWonderofYou in

this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.

this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.

the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.

OrphanCrow

jwfacts: No one questions that there is danger with blood transfusions. A Doctor's goal is to provide a transfusion when it is less dangerous than not having one. JW's have been sacrificial lambs, and for no justifiable reason.

Exactly

That is why it is important to have accurate information about what the real risks are:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Blood_Transfusions:_How_Safe

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"Basics of Blood Management" by Dr. Petra Seeber and Dr. Aryeh Shander - Inaccuracies and Myth

by OrphanCrow in

patient blood management arose out of bloodless medicine and alternatives to blood transfusions.

pbm has been accepted as the standard of care in australia and has been implemented into the health care systems of other countries such as canada.

a prominent promoter of pbm has been aryeh shander from englewood hospital in new jersey.

OrphanCrow

Room215: Any reference to "Basics of Blood Management" as it applies to JWs is a disingenuous misnomer.

For sure.

The WT has done nothing but manage blood for the past 70 years - they have controlled the blood of millions. The WT has decided how the JWs' blood should be "managed". On threat of eternal death.

To get back to talking about that textbook - "Basics of Blood Management" - the origin of the book is clear. It is the voice of the WT's Hospital Information Services. The arm of the WT organization that has, over the years, arisen out of alliances between medical practitioners and JWs.

WonderofYou - Thank you for all that additional information on Dr. Seeber.

Seeber - a JW doctor - and Shander - clearly aligned with the the HLC. Authors of this book.

The chapter that discloses the origins of the current blood management movement is Chapter One: History and Organization of Blood Management

This chapter presents the view that the Jehovah's Witnesses are the foundation of the bloodless movement. The chapter is full of inaccuracies, mostly in the form of what has been left out. The information that isn't presented is sometimes the most telling.

If I were to re-title this chapter, it would be "WT Revisionist History 101".

Like all good stories, it weaves the truth around the holes left through omission.

First sentence:

Blood management has evolved from humble beginnings into a viable, rapidly - developing medical specialty

Truth. Blood management now has a stranglehold on countries all over the world. Look at Europe and Australia. And many more, especially developing countries

Rapidly developing - yes...the search for the holy grail -artificial blood - is always active. Blood management is part of the biotech industry...a volatile marketplace

Next sentence:

Its development was initiated by the wish of Jehovah’ s Witnesses for a transfusion - free treatment and has been shaped by influences coming from transfusion medicine and the military’ s experiences.

So the position of the JWs (notice that it doesn't say the WT - the organization that demands the JWs follow their blood doctrine) is made clear - the JWs founded, through their wishes, the blood management movement.

"Shaped by influences coming from transfusion medicine" is truth. Without blood transfusion technology...there would be no autologous blood transfusions - which is what bloodless surgery is. Bloodless medicine is built on the back of blood technology

"...the military's experience". Here...let me fix that one. It should read "...the military's investments."

Next sentence:

Blood management has today been introduced into mainstream medicine.

Yes. We know.

The WT has finally managed to make the leap into mainstream medicine - from its "humble beginnings" when it promoted all sorts of quack cures and fraudulent medical advice...to now. An evolution has occurred

The next few paragraphs in this chapter deal with objectives and definitions. I am going to skip that part for now and go to "A Brief History":

The term “ bloodless medicine ” is often associated with the belief of Jehovah’ s Witnesses that they should refrain from the use of blood, therefore ruling out the option of blood transfusion. The essence of bloodless medicine, and lately, blood management, however, is not restricted to the beliefs of a religious group. To get a better understanding as to what bloodless medicine and blood management mean, let us go back to the roots of these disciplines.

And the following will be what the Hospital Information Services wants the blood management world to believe (through the voice of a JW doctor/author):

One is not completely wrong to attribute the origin of the term “ bloodless medicine ” to the endeavor of Jehovah ’ s Witnesses to receive treatment without resorting to donor blood transfusion. Their attitude toward the sanctity of blood greatly influences their view of blood transfusion. This was described as early as 1927 in their journal The Watchtower (December 15, 1927). Although the decision to refuse blood transfusion is a completely religious one, the Witnesses have frequently used scientific information about the side effects of donor blood transfusion to convince their physicians that their decision is a reasonable one and is corroborated by scientific evidence. The booklet entitled Blood, Medicine and the Law of God (published in 1961) explained the Witnesses’ religious stand, but also addressed issues such as transfusion reactions, transfusion - related syphilis, malaria, and hepatitis.

The sins of omission are crimes of commission.

The author(s) of this textbook know very well that blood transfusions were not banned by the WT prior to mid-1945.

This historical account is heavily biased - it places the full responsibility of blood refusal on the shoulders of JWs themselves - it never once addresses the WT's role in setting the restrictive blood policies and then demanding strict adherence to those dictates.

Blame the victim - the victims of the WT's blood policy

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How Dangerous are Blood Transfusions really?

by TheWonderofYou in

this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.

this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.

the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.

OrphanCrow

WonderofYou...is Hans Gombotz a JW?

Or has he just performed bloodless procedures on a whole lot of JWs? Is his affiliation with the bloodless JWs (Hofmann et al) more than just a mutual medical interest? Is he one of the many JW doctors that the WT refers to?

I seem to remember seeing Shannon Farmer's name attached to Austrian BM activities. He sort of disappeared after the Australian publicity. I think he hangs out with the European crew - he would be Hofmann's shadow

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How Dangerous are Blood Transfusions really?

by TheWonderofYou in

this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.

this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.

the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.

OrphanCrow

How dangerous are blood transfusions....really?

Actually, they are one of the safest medical procedures that a person can have.

Blood management - the control of the world's blood supply - is simply blood politics. Politics fueled by economics.

Surgical alternatives to blood transfusions are blood transfusions - the transfusion of a person's own blood (*to add - and the transfusion of synthetic fluids). The ideology behind bloodless procedures, and what underpins blood management, is that a person can become contaminated by another person's blood - bloodless procedures supposedly keep a person's blood clean and pure.

Blood management is an ideology

Blood politics