21-09-2017 12:52 via montrealgazette.com

While you were sleeping: Hurricane Maria damage and a blood transfusion

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A judge authorized a Montreal hospital to perform a blood transfusion on a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness with cancer, despite the girl’s refusal. In June 2017, the girl learned she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer, and needed to undergo chemotherapy treatments. Such treatments often required blood transfusions, failing which death or irreversible neurological damage are lik
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