Question

How has the discovery of blood transfusion from 1667 by jean Baptiste denis has changed the united states health care system?

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In 2013 there were more than 6.1 millon red blood cell(RBC) transfusions in the United States.Each year,one person out of 25 receives a transfusion,making it one of the most used medical treatments.

Blood has many connotations derived from religious values,mass culture or personal ideas.One of the first known transfusions,performed in 1667 by jean Baptiste denis,was the administration of blood from a Lamb to treat a patient with Chronic fever.Denis used animal blood for transfusion, beacuse he believed it less likely to be renederd impure by passion or vice.Nowadays there still are some cultural beliefs that blood transfusion can convey the donors characteristics to the recipient.

However,there is little scientific evaluation of possible changes in behaviour after a transfusion.Waldby et al-showed that some donors considered blood to be a bearer of personality or moral disposition,and the transfusion could transmit these traits.Mahon-Daly- also described that some blood donors believed that there might some link between themselves and their donated blood.However,these studies evaluate the perceptions of the donors,not of the recipients.

   Actually blood has NO impact whatsoever on personality,temperament,character,personal tastes,creativity,talents,intelligence,sexual orientation,morality etc.Receiving blood transfusion will not change anything about you at all,except that you will have more healthy blood in your circulatory system than you did before the transfusion.