The blood transfusion thing is something that I don't particularly agree with. However, there are many plus sides to this. There are now synthetic blood alternatives that JWs will accept and many save their own blood for replenishment purposes. In fact, after speaking to a few nurses and doctors about this, I've learned that even though its a pain for medical staff, alot of them agree with their thinking. And you will never hear of a JW with a transmitted diesease due to a blood transfusion.
I'm sorry to hear what happened to your friends family, but the occurances of that nowadays is minimal. But then again I am from NY and medical technology is quite advanced, so maybe these are still issues in TN.
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