To the Editor: I was recently hospitalized in a major universityhospital for the Guillain–Barré syndrome. Whilethere, I had blood drawn, usually twice a day. During my twoweeks in the intensive care unit, my hematocrit dropped from43 to 31.
As chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at a well-knownchildren's teaching hospital, I was shocked at the amount ofblood drawn for my tests. I asked the phlebotomist to draw lessblood, but she refused, saying that her instructions had tobe followed. While I was completely paralyzed, I began to thinkabout why hospitals draw . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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