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> collecting blood samples from people, especially children, can be difficult to conduct, and can raise significant logistical and ethical issues. Really? Chi
by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> collecting blood samples from people, especially children, can be difficult to conduct, and can raise significant logistical and ethical issues.
Really? Children visit family doctors relatively often in my experience and taking a blood sample is a trivial and routine task for the nurse at my GP's surgery. What ethical issue is there?
- defrost 2y ago> in my experience Well, that's all that counts then I guess, never mind the stated opinion of medical researchers in the field with broader experience. Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witnesses oppose blood transfusions and small town groups (which can be quite large in specific towns and non existant in others) can oppose blood samples also. Various indiginous groups within Australia and elsewhere can be opposed to medical tests .. for fear of being guinea pigs in experiments again. Some people just don't like giving samples.
- kwhitefoot 2y agoIf they have numbers o support their supposed wider experience I'd love to see them. You can always find someone opposed to something, that doesn't necessarily mean that the thing is impractical. How was the blood extracted from the sparrows? There was a surprising lack of information about animal welfare in the article. People interested in that might be opposed to those medical tests too.