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  2. Ron Lapin - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Lapin (1941–May 16, 1995) was an Israeli-born American surgeon, best known as a "bloodless surgeon" due to his willingness to perform surgeries on severely anemic Jehovah's Witness patients without the use of blood transfusions. He completed medical school in New York City and established his practice in Orange County, CA, in the 1970s ...

  3. Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions - Wikipedia

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    Jehovah's Witnesses' literature teaches that their refusal of transfusions of whole blood or its four primary components—red cells, white cells, platelets, and plasma—is a non-negotiable religious stand and that those who respect life as a gift from God do not try to sustain life by taking in blood, [5] [6] even in an emergency. [7]

  4. Knocking (2006 film) - Wikipedia

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    Knocking is a 2006 documentary film directed by Joel Engardio [1] and Tom Shepard that focuses on the civil liberties fought for by Jehovah's Witnesses.It focuses primarily on the stories of three Jehovah's Witnesses, and how their lives demonstrate three fundamental Witness teachings that have affected society in general: Conscientious objection, and rejection of blood transfusions and ...

  5. List of Supreme Court cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses

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    In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. [36] [37] Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties." [38]

  6. List of blood donation agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Blood Centers of America (BCA), a national cooperative of independent blood centers. [ 4 ] Alliance for Community Transfusion Services (ACTS) is a strategic and operational alliance of independent blood centers that collect, process and distribute nearly 2 million blood products to patients in more than 750 hospitals and healthcare facilities ...

  7. How L.A. County is trying to remake addiction treatment - AOL

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    In Los Angeles County, the number of overdose deaths tied to fentanyl skyrocketed between 2016 and 2022, soaring from 109 to 1,910, according to a county report.

  8. Bloodless surgery - Wikipedia

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    During the early 1960s, American heart surgeon Denton Cooley successfully performed numerous bloodless open-heart surgeries on Jehovah's Witness patients. Fifteen years later, he and his associate published a report of more than 500 cardiac surgeries in this population, documenting that cardiac surgery could be safely performed without blood transfusion.

  9. Nathan Knorr - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Knorr was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.At age 16, he began to show interest in the International Bible Students at age 16. He left the Reformed Church in 1922. He was baptized on July 4, 1923, as a Bible Student following a baptism talk by Frederick W. Franz, with whom Knorr became close friends.

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