Christians does this bother you?

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Nancy DiGeronimo, a Jehovah’s Witness, received a life-saving blood transfusion when complications arose after she gave birth to a healthy boy. But even so, reports Frank Donnelly in The Staten Island Advance, DiGeronimo then sued her doctor and Staten Island University Hospital for medical malpractice alleging the transfusions of another person’s blood conflicted with her religious beliefs.

As a Christian we are obliged to do good and for the sake of greater good do you guys think what the doctor did to save someones life wrong?

[boyce]

Nancy DiGeronimo, a Jehovah’s Witness, received a life-saving blood transfusion when complications arose after she gave birth to a healthy boy. But even so, reports Frank Donnelly in The Staten Island Advance, DiGeronimo then sued her doctor and Staten Island University Hospital for medical malpractice alleging the transfusions of another person’s blood conflicted with her religious beliefs.

As a Christian we are obliged to do good and for the sake of greater good do you guys think what the doctor did to save someones life wrong?

The doctors did the right thing.

[ricki]

I've personally known a doctor who has done this same thing - without the Witnesses discovering it.

The doctor violated the patient's wishes - but at the same time acted in a way that he or she felt best served the patient's health and well-being.

I think everyone in the medical community will recognize this, and that they applaud the doctor's actions despite the legal entanglement into which the doctor has placed him or her self.

**If** the doctor believed (in his professional medical opinion) that the patient's chance of survival was significantly enhanced by the transfusion, then he was right to do what he did - breaking the law in order to save a life. Again: I think the medical community will applaud that decision.

- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

[garbhach65]

It is always up to the individual what they want to happen to THEIR body. This may seem weird to people but that shouldn't anyone else's business to be perfectly honest. The doctor would have been fully aware of the mother's religion as she would have made it perfectly clear but he denied her of her own free will and choices. So what it all boils down to is that this doctor was playing God and making his own rules up when dealing with people's lives whether that is saving her life etc.

there has been more deaths from blood transfusions than there has been of deaths because people have denied blood transfusions- FACT

Its the 21st Centring there are many other means of doing the same job as to a blood transfusion but doctor's today prove to be lazy and bone idle and choose the quickest way even though its the most dangerous way FACT

[wattekinson86]

True Christians will not condone violating a explicit command from God.

The bible says Because of the biblical command in Acts chapter 15 verse 28 and 29 to "ABSTAIN from blood"

There is not way to obey the above command AND accept a blood transfusion. All sensible Christians will respect the right a person has to control what happens to their own body.

[abisha]

If someone's faith put's them in danger of dying, they should be judged to mentally unstable.

If someone's faith put's someone else in danger of dying, then they are sick individual, and their opinion should not be paid any attention.

That a mother would actually sue people for saving her child's life is just about the lowest thing I can think of.

[ruelle]

Although the doctor may have been doing what he thought was best, if he was aware of here wishes then he totally went against her wishes. We usual let doctors know ahead of time our wishes about blood transfusion and there should be other alternatives set in place in case something like this happens so she has every right to sue being against her wishes.

[darik]

I think that you should respect someones wishes as they wish to apply it to themselves.

If a JW is so stupid that they want to die rather than get a blood transfusion, then let them die.

But the JW cannot force this stupid practice on someone else.

by the way, the case was thrown out of court:

"Judge dismisses Jehovah's Witness' 'wrongful life' lawsuit vs. Staten Island doctor and University Hospital"
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/judge_dismisses_wrongful_life.html

[deangelo51]

I dont believe that its capable of being judged in a religious sense at all. I think its a legal question.

Personally, I feel that the doctor was morally correct but legally incorrect regardless of how that may be perceived as an injustice.

[ruelle]

The JWs do not represent Christians. The JWs belief about not receiving blood is counter-intuitive, and is just plain dumb. They saved her life, and she sues them. A weird way to thank the doctor and the medical staff.