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Article: Commentary on 'Johnny's Story: Transfusing a Jehovah's Witness.'(response to article by Sharon McNeil in this issue, p. 287)
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- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Sharon McNeil poignantly expresses a dilemma for nurses worldwide who care for and are concerned about the children of Jehovah's Witnesses. As McNeil expresses, members of this faith have chosen not to accept blood or blood products as a result of scripture instruction from the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 15. Normally, this is not a problem. Jehovah's Witnesses receive full medical care and all treatment modalities other than blood. Many medical centers (see Table 1) have dedicated part of their mission as providing bloodless treatment and surgery for Jehovah's Witnesses, using such items as erythropoietin, hyperbaric oxygen, hypothermia, desmopressin, and fluid ...