Letter
Managing a Jehovah's Witness who agrees to blood transfusion
Cite this as:
BMJ
1994;309:612.3
- C Granger
- St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6.
EDITOR, - The article by Simon Finger and colleagues1 and the ensuing correspondence2 illustrate the difficulties of treating Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions. I have been faced with the opposite problem, though a similar ethical dilemma.
A Previously fit Jehovah's Witness suffered multiple trauma after trying to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. He was resuscitated and …
Sign in
Article access
Article access for 1 day
Purchase this article for £20 $30 €32*
The PDF version can be downloaded as your personal record
CiteULike
Connotea
Del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Mendeley
Reddit
Technorati
Twitter
Stumbleupon
Rapid responses
Latest Responses
Re: Emergency admissions for diabetes fall by almost 7% in integrated care pilot scheme
Published 24 May 2012
Re: Television shows and education about sexually transmitted infections: no laughing matter
Published 24 May 2012
Re: The scatter of research: cross sectional comparison of randomised trials and systematic reviews across specialties
Published 24 May 2012
Re: Outcomes of elective induction of labour compared with expectant management: population based study
Published 24 May 2012
Reply to Anne Szarewski and Diana Mansour
Published 24 May 2012
Most responses
The psychiatric oligarchs who medicalise normality (8 responses)
Published 2 May 2012
Are doctors justified in taking industrial action in defence of their pensions? No (8 responses)
Published 8 May 2012 - 12:21
Are doctors justified in taking industrial action in defence of their pensions? Yes (8 responses)
Published 8 May 2012 - 12:21
Venous thrombosis in users of non-oral hormonal contraception: follow-up study, Denmark 2001-10 (8 responses)
Published 10 May 2012 - 23:32
The hardest thing: admitting error (7 responses)
Published 2 May 2012 - 12:27