Common misconceptions
Myth: Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in
medicine or medical treatment.
Fact: We seek the best possible medical care for
ourselves and our families. When we have health
problems, we go to doctors who have skill in
providing medical and surgical care without blood.
We appreciate advancements that have been made
in the medical field. In fact, bloodless treatments
developed to help Witness patients are now being
used to benefit all in the community. In many
countries, any patient can now choose to avoid
blood-transfusion risks, such as blood-borne
diseases, immune-system reactions, and human
errors.
Myth: Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that faith will
heal a person’s ailments.
Fact: We do not practice faith healing.
Myth: Avoiding blood transfusions is very costly.
Fact: Medical treatments that avoid blood
transfusions are cost-effective.*
Myth: Many Witnesses, including children, die each
year as a result of refusing blood transfusions.
Fact: This statement is totally unfounded. Surgeons
regularly perform such complex procedures as heart
operations, orthopedic surgery, and organ
transplants without the use of blood transfusions. *
Patients, including children, who do not receive
transfusions usually fare as well as or better than
those who do accept transfusions. * In any case, no
one can say for certain that a patient will die
because of refusing blood or will live because of
accepting it.
Why don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses accept
blood transfusions?
This is a religious issue rather than a medical one.
Both the Old and New Testaments clearly command
us to abstain from blood. ( Genesis 9:4;
Leviticus 17:10; Deuteronomy 12:23; Acts 15:28,
29 ) Also, God views blood as representing life.
(Leviticus 17:14) So we avoid taking blood not only
in obedience to God but also out of respect for him
as the Giver of life.
Changing viewpoints
At one time, the medical
community generally
viewed strategies for
avoiding transfusions, so-
called bloodless medicine,
as extreme, even suicidal,
but this has changed in
recent years. For
example, in 2004, an
article published in a
medical education journal
stated that “many of the
techniques developed for
use in Jehovah’s Witness
patients will become
standard practice in years
to come.” * An article in
the journal Heart, Lung
and Circulation said in 2010 that “‘bloodless
surgery’ should not be limited to J[ehovah’s] W
[itnesses] but should form an integral part of
everyday surgical practice.”
Thousands of doctors worldwide now use blood-
conservation techniques to perform complex
surgeries without transfusions. Such alternatives to
blood transfusions are used even in developing
countries and are requested by many patients who
are not Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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They think they know it all but indeed they know nothing.

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