Tainted Blood Scandal Analysis

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“There is no time to think. There is only time to do or let die!” Professor Mark M. Ravitch: “If you cannot figure out a patient's problems, maybe someone else can!”and Raphael Adar “When you encounter massive bleeding, the first thing to remember is that it is not your blood!” Details on how some pharmaceutical companies tried to bribe medical students to use their (usually quite expensive) drugs with gifts and weekends away. And also how and why women of today have ~450 periods throughout their lives verse before the birth control pill, women were having only ~160 periods. A look at Canada’s Tainted Blood Scandal: how many terribly sick and died and how Jehovah's Witnesses saved lives during that period of time and also how members of

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