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Dr. Aryeh Shander: "To say that one has died because of refusal of blood, I think is a very general misleading statement."
Dr. Peter Carmel: "It's rarely, if ever, the case that a patient refused a blood transfusion and therefore died."
One doctor by the name of Shadman said: "In performing upwards of 20,000 surgical operations, I never gave a blood transfusion and never had a patient die from lack of it..."
"The Center for Disease Control estimates that as many as 35,000 deaths and 500,000 illnesses a year may be due to the presence of serum hepatitis in blood for transfusions." This is the result of just one complication from blood transfusion. However, there are others which are mentioned in the book Complications in Surgery Management. This book then adds: "In terms of disability and loss of life . . . blood transfusions rival some of our major health problems."
"The bloodletting of yore has been superseded by blood transfusion. Of all the ridiculous medical practices of the past and present times, this present blood craze is the worst." - -Dr. G. Boni and Dr. P.Lafarge, "Let's Live", March 1970
"If blood was a new drug it wouldn't receive a product licence."--Tom Lennard, Royal Vic toria Infirmary
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