It's frustrating
May. 3rd, 2018 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xp_wallflowerAs a medical professional, there are often decisions you make that are difficult and at times the choices you make can appear cruel, or even heartless but you do the best you can with the resources and the knowledge that you have.
Firstly, an older article on the costs of blood screening, these are for tests that they already have and know what to test for:
https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=754
The health system in America is broken - there are no buts about it. Money plays way too much of a role in the system and the choices made due to that fact can be draconian.
Not taking openly mutant blood is as much about cost as it is about prejudice, although I do believe there is fear involved.
It is much, much easier to simply say 'We will not allow mutants to donate' then it is to fund research into new blood screening that will take into account the huge variance of possible mutations and how their blood might interact with that of a recipient.
I am not saying the decision by the Mayo clinic is right, or fair, or helpful in any way. I do not excuse the results of fear, even if it can be warranted. But there is more then just one side of this story. Do not blame the people on the ground for these decisions. They have a job to do just as everyone else does. If you must protest, then protest where it's needed, at the executive level, at the Government level.
Or go into business and design those new blood screening tests and then offer them to the Red Cross and other donation places for free.
Firstly, an older article on the costs of blood screening, these are for tests that they already have and know what to test for:
https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=754
The health system in America is broken - there are no buts about it. Money plays way too much of a role in the system and the choices made due to that fact can be draconian.
Not taking openly mutant blood is as much about cost as it is about prejudice, although I do believe there is fear involved.
It is much, much easier to simply say 'We will not allow mutants to donate' then it is to fund research into new blood screening that will take into account the huge variance of possible mutations and how their blood might interact with that of a recipient.
I am not saying the decision by the Mayo clinic is right, or fair, or helpful in any way. I do not excuse the results of fear, even if it can be warranted. But there is more then just one side of this story. Do not blame the people on the ground for these decisions. They have a job to do just as everyone else does. If you must protest, then protest where it's needed, at the executive level, at the Government level.
Or go into business and design those new blood screening tests and then offer them to the Red Cross and other donation places for free.
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Date: 2018-05-04 05:05 pm (UTC)I mean not you YOU because you're a weird robot person but
I mean jesus, Laurie, it's not just about... like, there are people who don't even know they're mutants how does this stop them from donating - they can only stop people like ME who look like mutants
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Date: 2018-05-06 05:18 am (UTC)I am only a weird robot person sometimes. I have a taser now.
I'm not saying it's not bigotry. Of course it's bigotry to only prevent visible mutants from donating.
It's just hard to argue that without knowing all the reasons that they can throw at you for why it's not bigotry.