Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: bloodless medicine

  • The sanctity of blood: Jehovah’s Witnesses and bloodless medicine

    Margo A. Peyton Baltimore, Maryland, United States   Dr. Steven Frank in the operating room at The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Source Tammy said that her throat looked like that of a bullfrog croaking on an August night. At her local emergency room, her blood pressure was 240/40…