vidiot: Jeezus.
There's regular, garden-variety stupid...
...and then there's epic, fatal facepalming, Here-Comes-Honey-Boo-Boo-roadkill-eating stupid.
Well, the kind of stupid that is being put on display in this court case is simply Watchtower stupidity. The poor man who lost his daughter simply believed all the crap that he has been told by the WT and their associates. That is all that happened. He believed the WT propaganda. He believed in the 'miracle' of so-called 'bloodless medicine'. He believed that there was some sort of magical team of 'bloodless experts' who would give his daughter all that specialized attention that the noblood people have promised the JWs.
Here is what the JWs are told:
Bloodless surgery has been called the "Gold Standard" because of its known advantages over traditional surgery.
Bloodless surgery techniques involve meticulous study and skill. While a cooperative surgeon, a surgeon who is agreeable to avoid the use of blood products, will practice blood-conserving techniques, that does not mean he/she is qualified to do a bloodless surgery. Even though more than 100,000 surgeons worldwide, including military surgeons, have been trained in this particular area, more bloodless surgery health practitioners are needed to meet the high demand. Training for surgeons, anesthesiologists, perfusionists and nurses are provided by bloodless surgery and medicine centers and some medical device companies.
And this is what the court case revealed:
...Dr. Paynter’s depiction of “bloodless medicine”
grossly mischaracterized the nature of the concept itself, and
would have given the jury a starkly inaccurate understanding of
what it actually entails. As described by Dr. Paynter in his report,
“bloodless medicine” is purportedly a distinct field, for which
medical personnel need to receive specialized training in order to
provide competent, effective care. See Paynter Expert Report at
2-3. In reality, however, “bloodless medicine” requires nothing
of the sort. Rather, as the testimony at trial clearly revealed,
even by [Appellant’s] own expert, all doctors always try to
minimize surgical blood loss and can, and do, capably treat
patients who refuse, for one reason or another, to allow the use
of various blood products during the course of their treatment,
without needing to have some sort of formalized expertise.
There are no specific medical courses or training in “bloodless
medicine” as such knowledge in this area is part and parcel to,
and integrated, into the overall general medical training. See
N.T. 4/21/15 at 66, 94-95 (testimony from Dr. Green);54 N.T.
4/22/15 at 8-9 (testimony from Dr. Daniels);55 Appellant’s
Motion in Limine to Exclude in Part the Appellees’ Expert
Testimony of Arnold W. Cohen, M.D., Ex.Cat 4-6 (“Cohen MIL”)
(Frank expert report). 56 Indeed, even Dr. Prince, Appellant’s
own expert, admitted that not only had he himself never been
specially trained in bloodless medicine, and that such training did
not actually exist. N.T. 4/23/15 at 56-57.
The entity that should be sued in this case is the Watchtower and the bloodless unit itself. They are the ones who misled Mr. Seels into thinking that "bloodless" surgery is superior and that noblood methods are the "golden standard of care".
The responsibility for this medical disaster lies squarely in the WT's corner.
