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Friday, June 25, 2004

FH Hospital Offers Surgery, Minus The Blood Transfusions

A little over a year ago, Dr. Moises Tenembaum, director of surgery at North Shore University Hospital in Forest Hills, was treating a patient who is a Jehovah’s Witness minister. When the patient was told that he would need a blood transfusion, Tenembaum had a startling revelation.
Practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses abstain from blood transfusions during surgery. Therefore, the group is compelled to seek medical care in New Jersey or Long Island, because Queens hospitals did not provide what is now known as bloodless surgery.

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