If you want to help save a life, then donate, you shouldn't worry about who the person is or why they need the blood. A life is a life. It is helping someone, and it shouldn't matter.
I'm saying that I would feel better about philanthropy if I could believe that it was going to help someone, rather than to perpetuate a problem. I mean... why would I go through discomfort and inconvenience to help a self-destructing person soak up medical services.
I have been banned from giving blood by carter blood center because they don't want to risk the liability for my latex allergy. Somewhere someone may be bleeding to death because some company official is afraid of being sued.
Per a medical worker that I used to hang out with, a significant percentage (he said majority) of donated blood was used to "dilute" alcoholics who were brought in with alcohol poisoning. He claimed that blood donations were used to save the same homeless people over and over again.I don't know if it's true or not, but it added to my already-unhealthy cynicism.
Who's worrying? I give every eight weeks.
i agree 100%
If you want to help save a life, then donate, you shouldn't worry about who the person is or why they need the blood. A life is a life. It is helping someone, and it shouldn't matter.
I'm saying that I would feel better about philanthropy if I could believe that it was going to help someone, rather than to perpetuate a problem. I mean... why would I go through discomfort and inconvenience to help a self-destructing person soak up medical services.
i thought that in today's day and age a latex allergy reaction could be avoided with new technologies that are latex free..
So you're saying....."Let um die"??
I have been banned from giving blood by carter blood center because they don't want to risk the liability for my latex allergy. Somewhere someone may be bleeding to death because some company official is afraid of being sued.
he almost sounds bitter.....and i don't really see that aa a true reality in every hospital...
Per a medical worker that I used to hang out with, a significant percentage (he said majority) of donated blood was used to "dilute" alcoholics who were brought in with alcohol poisoning. He claimed that blood donations were used to save the same homeless people over and over again.I don't know if it's true or not, but it added to my already-unhealthy cynicism.