The hospital I work for has their own medical directives and between that and the Society's I would like to think I am covered. Unfortunately that may not be the case. The integrity of the surgeon and anesthesiologist is always tested when faced with a crisis situation and some have been quite unkind in their failed cohersion attempts. I speak from experience within my family. The doctor flatly told us that my mother-in-law would die without blood. And I asked her what guarantees can she give us that she would live after receiving blood. Blood was administered but only at the insistence of my mother-in-law; she really had no knowledge, though not for the lack of trying on our part.

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Sybille
“Think highly of yourself
because the world takes you
at your own estimate.”