I agree with the above two comments, although I'm sure the original poster didn't intend that at all. That would be ridiculous. ;-) I remember reading these kind of articles before, when I was in. JWs love this stuff. It proves that Jah guided them all along. And the puny worldlings know nothing at all!
JWFACTS: "The ongoing pace of invention have taken us to a point where blood is needed less and less. This has nothing to do with JWs. Doctors were looking for alternatives to blood transfusions long before Watchtower quakery in the 1940s decided to claim blood tranfusions were wrong against god."
Exactly. Dubs will never get this simple fact. In the case of massive, traumatic blood loss, blood is still life saving! You can't compare a planned surgery to a trauma when the body is in desparate need for oxiginated red blood cells.