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Article: Jehovah's witness pt. survives crisis: Dr. Sued for giving transfusions: case on point: Harvey v. Strickland, 2002 WL 1459141 S.2d--SC. (Medical Law Case of the Month).(patient)(Brief Article)
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- Medical Law's Regan Report
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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ISSUE: In most cases, when a patient survives a life or death situation due to the intervention of a physician, he or she is eternally grateful. However, in this unusual South Carolina case, the patient, a Jehovah's Witness, notified a physician who was to perform surgery on him that he did not want blood given under any circumstances. Notwithstanding the restriction, the physician agreed to perform the procedure without transfusing the patient. After the patient lost approximately 30 percent of his blood volume and death by heart attack was almost imminent, the physician, after obtaining the patient's mother's consent, gave blood transfusions which saved the patient's ...