Blood Transfusions
Sin—lt will be noted that those three Napier doctors were against force regarding adults, but not So definite over children. I would be more inclined to agree with compulsion were doctors infallible. They are not. And they sometimes disagree. If this point were conceded, where would it end? Mr Wheeler gives the example of a small boy bleedipg to' death after a tonsil operation. Perhaps all doctors would not agree the operation was necessary in the first place. In last Sunday’s discussion, the panel spoke of powers of the State over parents who neglect their children; but the case is not parallel. This is not neglect in the ordinary >4 *
sense at all. Mr Mason made i good point when he asked why only his sect was singled out for persecution. I was impressed with the calm way he faced a difl flcult situation and never once got heated under attack.—Yours, etc., D.'M. MIRAMS. Timaru, June 30,‘i960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29246, 2 July 1960, Page 3
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