My Question of the Day for 12 November 2009
My Question of the Day: You are in an extremely bad accident. You also happen to have an extremely rare blood type. The doctors are doing all they can to repair the damage to your body, and they discover you must have a blood transfusion or their efforts will be in vain. During all of their life-saving measures, you are conscious and responsive, so you’re able to communicate with the hospital staff.
The head of the medical staff appears to give you good news and bad news. The bad news, she tells you, is that the hospital doesn’t have enough of your blood type within the mileage radius that it can be brought in to save you before you bleed to death. The good news, she says, is that there is one person in the hospital who has the same, extremely rare blood type as you, who is willing to donate his blood.
The issue is that the willing donor has an incurable, but NOT deadly disease. She asks you if you want to take your chances without the blood transfusion, or if you want to accept the only blood that will guarantee you a full recovery from your injuries but will also leave you with an incurable, but NOT deadly, disease for the rest of your life.
What do you do?
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Tough choice without more information pertaining to the illness, but we aren’t going to live this phase of life forever so, I’d refuse the blood and take my chances. Quality of life matters as much as quantity, in my opinion.
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LikeDislikeA little know fact about the medical field. A hospital is the only place where death can be given and accepted in the interest of science. Experiments are often done, but not acknowledged by medical staff. It really does not matter what race a doctor represents, they are all taught to think in the interest of science. At some point in life a moralistic concepts must be introduced again in our lives. I would deny the tainted blood and pray for a real tranfussion of pure blood. The risk is just not worth ones time and pain. “That’s the way I see it.”
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