Originally Posted by
Occupationalhazard
Giving blood is a good and valuable thing, and it's a pity more people cannot participate.
No it is not a good and valuable thing. Maybe it was 50 years ago, if even then.
Do we have any doctors on the OMNI forum? Please voice up and confirm that modern technology greatly diminishes the value of a blood transfusion. The only force that has kept blood transfusions as a choice is the money it generates. Therefore, it is in the interests of those who make the money to make it sound like a good and valuable thing.
Thousands of educated doctors know that danger a blood transfusion presents:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...RVAbstractPlus