Sagy Iftach, Jotkowitz Alan, Barski Leonid
Division of Internal Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center, 84101, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
J Relig Health. 2017 Apr;56(2):732-738. doi: 10.1007/s10943-016-0353-1.
Jehovah's witnesses oppose receiving blood transfusions based on religious grounds. This refusal raises complex medical, legal and ethical issues for the treating medical staff. In the past physicians attempted to force patients and children to accept transfusions when deemed medically necessary through the use of court orders. However, in recent years the threshold for blood transfusion has been gradually raised by medical experts as expressed in consensus guidelines, which means that Jehovah's witnesses' aversion to transfusion would have been partially justified medically. This article will further discuss these current trends.
耶和华见证人基于宗教原因反对接受输血。这种拒绝给治疗医护人员带来了复杂的医学、法律和伦理问题。过去，医生在认为输血在医学上必要时，试图通过法庭命令强迫患者和儿童接受输血。然而，近年来，正如共识指南所表明的，医学专家逐渐提高了输血门槛，这意味着耶和华见证人的输血厌恶在医学上有一定的合理性。本文将进一步讨论这些当前趋势。
