The report cites Clinical Professor James Isbister from the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. “Professor Isbister said Jehovah’s Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their [the Witness patients’] blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery,” reports the paper.<p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/surgeons-urged-to-avoid-transfusions-20121001-26vgf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/surgeons-urged-to-avoi...</a>