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A ground-breaking
title. The first and only book addressed to the layman documenting
the amazing health-care revolution that is quietly changing
the practice of medicine worldwide. Your
Body, Your Choice is the first book addressed
to the lay person on the revolutionary scientific advancements currently
challenging the whole practice of one of medicine's oldest therapies
-- blood transfusion. Scientific scrutiny is proving quite conclusively
that the old notion -- donated blood is the "gift of life" -- is
deeply flawed. Indeed, all too often, the "gift of life" has become
the "bringer of death." Trail-blazing leaders
of "bloodless" or "transfusion-free" medicine and surgery are taking
definitive steps to replace time-worn medical treatments with safer
approaches based on the ever-evolving evidence. Your Body, Your
Choice encapsulates a whole new world of thinking. It focuses
on the extraordinary revolution destined to have direct and vital
impact on the lives of all seeking treatment in hospitals or medical
clinics. Your Body, Your
Choice: - Traces the manipulation
of blood through medical history; - Describes how science
and medicine continue to discover unwelcome truths about transfused
blood and its effect on the immune system -- possibly the most life-threatening
transfusion complication; - Examines the growing
list of known viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases -- all of
them blood-borne -- as well as the threat of new and emerging viruses
and the threat of the blood-borne unknown; - Reveals the stunning
fact that the historically assumed efficacy of blood transfusion
has never been established scientifically; - Explains the rapid
growth of "bloodless" medicine and surgery centers in the United
States and around the world; - Takes the reader
step by step through the growing acceptance and application of bloodless
surgery techniques and procedures; - Tells how minimal
use of blood in surgery promotes faster healing, shorter hospital
stays and lower hospital bills; - Poses the now most
relevant question: Given modern science's vastly expanded knowledge
and scope, how much longer will blood transfusions continue? |
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