Here’s
food for thought – During my first week in this job I spend a day in each
of the various laboratories. One of my most vivid memories was from Friday 18
September 1981 when the chief in the microbiology laboratory went off on a
major rant about how the science of blood transfusion was dead. Apparently
there were dogs in Japan being kept alive on cell-free haemoglobin-based oxygen
carriers, and this chap was adamant that they would be used in humans in only a
few short months, and the traditional hospital blood bank would be gone.
There was a *lot* of
inter-departmental animosity (outright hatred) at the now-demolished
Royal East Sussex Hospital, and the subject of artificial blood was never far
from anyone’s lips back then.
Forty-five years later and the stuff
still hasn’t delivered…
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