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From: Dr. Doug Graham (DrGraham.vegsource.com)
Subject: Re: Dr. Doug…..Donating Blood
Date: February 22, 2007 at 1:39 pm PST

In Reply to: Dr. Doug…..Donating Blood posted by jesseCA on February 22, 2007 at 9:45 am:

I am still not in favor of donating or receiving blood, and certainly
not in favor of the way the system is currenly set up and utilized.
People die in hospitals constantly. They have a ready supply of
blood at all times, if they would simply use the blood of those who
recently died, where appropriate or necessary.
Donating blood seems to me to be more of a public relations
scheme than a true medical function. It seems strange to me that
you can donate blood but that that very same blood would be sold
to you at extravagent prices were you to receive it in a transfusion.
It seems odd that you can donate blood but cannot have it saved
for your own access should you need it later, meaning that you
must rely upon someone else’s blood in the case of a transfusion.
It seems odd to me that in the light of the fact that blood will be
rejected, every time, that more saline isn’t given instead of whole
blood.

Dr D