i have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records.
i have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail.
i would like to use it in a presentation i am giving to my peers regarding ethics and jw's.. thanks in advance,.
Just a thought..... perhaps those commenting on the blood card's violation of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) may want to explain why this is the case to the many individuals reading posts on this site who may not be familiar with the privacy laws of the health care industry.
PB
i have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records.
i have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail.
i would like to use it in a presentation i am giving to my peers regarding ethics and jw's.. thanks in advance,.
Hi All,
I heard back from ajwrb and got a copy of the card from Great Britain. However, this is the card that was in the chart of the patient I did pre-op on for surgery. It was in Florida and she was part of a local congregation and all of her contacts on the card were from the local congregation. It makes me wonder if this card is now being used in the USA since January 2006??? Next time I see this in the chart I will pay more attention and look to see where it was printed. If it is not being used here as of this year, then perhaps she got a copy of the card from someone in Britain.
I have a copy of the card if anyone has not seen it (but it sounds like most of you have) and am trying to upload it here but am not sure if it is showing as attached.
Thanks to all who have responded. I appreciate your help.
PB
i have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records.
i have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail.
i would like to use it in a presentation i am giving to my peers regarding ethics and jw's.. thanks in advance,.
I am very familiar with the site and have used it as reference for years. In fact I recently sent an email requesting information regarding this new card but have not received a reply as of yet which is why I posted here...just incase someone had access to a copy and could email it to me. The link above does not contain the copy of the card I am refering too. I will continue to look and hopefully come across it or perhaps see it once again in the chart of my next JW patient.
PB
i have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records.
i have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail.
i would like to use it in a presentation i am giving to my peers regarding ethics and jw's.. thanks in advance,.
A few weeks back I was doing an anesthesia pre-op on one of my patients for the OR. She was a JW and had a photo copy of her blood card (not the full size pages of the advanced directive packet) in her chart. It was not the same card that has been used for years. It was a condensed, wallet sized, advanced directive with the same logo all the previous blood cards have (red & black, NO BLOOD, with the blood bag with the slashed circle). It had sections listing the blood components not allowed and then listed those one could accept or refuse (there were boxes to check yes or no if the person would take it or not), as well as what treatments (i.e. cell saver) would be acceptable, and it had a section that could be signed giving the liaison committee the right to review the person's medical records. Previously I had seen the larger full page version of this medical advanced directive with the power of attorney section but it also had the section allowing the liaison committee to access records. The fact that I see it has been made in the standard blood card is something I found new. This is the card I am looking for a copy of.
Thanks for those who replied. Keep your eyes open.
PB
i have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records.
i have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail.
i would like to use it in a presentation i am giving to my peers regarding ethics and jw's.. thanks in advance,.
I have been trying to find a copy of the latest blood card/advanced directive that gives the liaison committee the right to access medical records. I have tried searching for it on several web sites to no avail. Can anyone help me out? I would like to use it in a presentation I am giving to my peers regarding ethics and JW's.
Thanks in advance,
PB
after many months of letting the junk pile up, me and my husband set out to tackle cleaning up the garage today so that i could start parking my car in there again as the cold weather is coming.. as we were working he said to me "okay these jehovah's witnesses books have to go".
when we first moved in three years ago, i had taken all of my jw books and put them into a storage container out in the garage.
at that point i felt like i was betraying jehovah if i threw out the books.. well three years later and i said "okay, but first we must rip out my name out of them all".
I had just about every piece of literature from 1960 onward, and some publications from the 40's and 50's. When I left the borg in 2000 I put them all in big boxes and then in the attic. When I moved from that house in 2003, I took all 25+ boxes to the dumpster and pitched them. It felt great!
two brothers, jason and johel woodliff, came back from iraq with their comrades in a marine corps battalion that lost 48 members, greeted by a mile-long parade attended by thousands of strangers.
but not by their family.
the brothers, their parents and j.r. brown, director of public information for the watchtower bible tract society, all speak out about jehovahs witnesses and military service.
Typical JW action unfortunately.
the wts would prefer to believe they possess a balanced view of education.
"no hard-and-fast rules should be made either for or against extra education" w92 11/1 p.15
it has even acknowledged that college education may be necessary in certain job markets today.
Prove to me the WTS is genuinely concerned about college youths!
They are "genuinely concerned" about college youths if those youths pioneer and can come to bethel and give free labor as doctors, dentists, physical therapists, nurses, lawyers, engineers, etc....
...but keep those college classes a secret...you'll never see a youth on an assembly part expressing how he or she is pioneering and attending college in order to go to Bethel (one of the only ways a single sister can make it to Bethel & I have known sisters who did just that and are at Bethel)...
...the borg unspoken view is that only the "spiritual super-heros" can handle college and spirituality at the same time but that can't be revealed to the "regular" JW youth cuz we all know what would happen then....
i had to take my wife to the hospital today for a blood test.
as i was waiting for her in the waiting room, i spotted a set of magazines that looked familiar.
it was the watchtower and awake in french.
Five years ago my husband died after being in hospice care for 6 months. The hospice had a great couseling department with a large library of books on grief and berevement for all age groups, relationships, and types of illness & death. Anyone could check out the books if they wanted to. I found lots of JW literature on the shelves. I remember going through every shelf in search of WT literature and I took every single piece I could find and pitched it. It was very cathartic after the fiasco that occured at my husband's JW funeral (that is another story).
Any time I find JW literature, where ever it may be, I always pitch it.
went to dr. again, they believe i am either severly malnourished or have cancer.
so there i sit and wanted to laugh because with all the test that they have taken, i am still in the same bag i was several weeks ago.
took more blood for more tests.
B,
There are lots of causes for neutropenia and different degrees of severity. Work with your doctor in finding the cause and in the mean time, contact your doctor immediately if you run any fevers or show signs of having any infection. What kinds of tests have you had and are you going to have a bone marrow biopsy? Hopefully the results of your tests show a cause much less severe than cancer and more easily treatable. Keep us posted.
PB
