Heart Surgeon Donates Blood During Operation
Dr. Samuel Weinstein was in El Salvador on a mercy mission. In the middle of performing a valve-replacement operation on an 8-year-old boy, he had to donate his own rare B-negative blood.
In the May 11 operation, which had begun 12 hours earlier, the boy’s failing aortic valve was replaced with his pulmonary valve and the pulmonary valve was replaced with an artificial valve.
“The surgery had been going well, everything was working great, but he was bleeding a lot and they didn’t have a lot of the medicines we would use to stop the bleeding,” Weinstein said.
Wonder how many of our doctors would give their blood to save us….
Chron.com, May 26, 2006
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