Religion: pros & cons (Religion)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 23, 2014, 01:53 (3682 days ago) @ DragonsHeart

Dh: Hello, gentlemen.-Welcome back Dh. Good to have you.
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> Dh: Interfaith marriages, while not the norm, were certainly not discouraged.-I'm in one now and it is great.
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> Dh: The medical community had to develop new ways of operating and new treatments to accommodate their patients who were Jehovah's Witnesses. As a result, research has shown that these bloodless procedures and treatments actually have quicker recovery times, and the healing process is faster. -It was more than Jehovah's Witnesses. Blood can certainly have complications. Luckily, in my case over 40 years in medicine, all I every saw was fever. But many ways around blood are now used. Plasma expanders for one; simply fluids as was done with my first wife, who lost close to 30% of her blood with birth of our son. Blood pressure was stabilized with adding fluids rapidly and stopping the bleeding. Then she took iron for months until the counts were back to normal. Self-transfusion as I have mentioned. And work on synthetic blood is ongoing.
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> Dh: Transfusions are not 100% safe, and never will be. They were viewed as safe, and then HIV was discovered to be transmitted through transfusions.-In my lifetime in medicine they were never viewed as 100% safe( I mentioned fever above). HIV is an example of what can happen; that came as a surprise in the 1980's, but even before we always tried to use blood judiciously. 
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> Dh: The statement where Protestants and Catholics don't seem to have an issue with transfusions. Then mentioning the issue of contraception, and questioning whether the Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury failed to consider the Bible as a whole. Here's my answer: They both have. -I've had to deal with all sorts of patients and clergy. I've always kept an open mind as to how they viewed their medical care and their religious beliefs. I've even had Christian Science folks in the office. To be a helpful human, folks must be accepted for how they believe.