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commiepinkofag · 5 months

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Dr. Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

Her work uncovered how businesses selling blood led to the spread of HIV in the countryside.

She was at the forefront of AIDS activism in China and traveled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.

A gynecologist by training, she encountered her first AIDS patient in the central province of Henan in 1996.

While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and beyond.

She told the Associated Press in a previous interview that she withstood government pressure and persisted in her work because “everyone has the responsibility to help their own people. As a doctor, that’s my job. So it’s worth it.”

#gao yaojie #doctor #author #activist #aids activist #aids activism #aids #hiv #blood transfusion #aids epidemic #aids crisis #china #healthcare #health care #1996 #1990s #90s #2023

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wikipediapictures · 3 months

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Packed red blood cells

#packed red blood cells #blood #blood transfusion #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #medicine #medcore #medicalcore #medicore #medical #medical aesthetic #hospital aesthetic #hospital #hospitals #hospitalcore #intravenous #iv blood transfusion #blood bank

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sowhumpful · 8 months

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#whump #whump gif #restrained to the bed #strapped to the bed #tied up #medical whump #blood transfusion #struggle against the restraints #struggle #struggle against the bonds #going nowhere #secured to the bed #Edge of tomorrow #tom cruise

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abybweisse · 2 months

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Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

⚠️ long post ⚠️

So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

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whumpshaped · 6 months

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Concept: beck becoming anemic after being fed on for a while and helle being thrown because huh, that had never happened before? Saw it as a side effect in your guide and was like OOH

not terribly long after this

masterlist

tw vampire whumper, sickfic i guess, blood transfusion, hospital setting, needles

Tired, tired, tired, always so fucking tired. Beck thought he was going to go mad with this constant, mind-numbing exhaustion. At first, he really assumed it was just the monotonity of his dire situation. He'd heard of people getting used to bad situations, then eventually their bodies shutting down 'out of nowhere'. It was never out of nowhere, of course. Prolonged abuse like that would've taken a toll on anyone's body.

But he tried to push through it, given he had no solution or end in sight. More sleep, as much as he could get away with while working during the day and entertaining a vampire during the night. More coffee, as much as he could drink without his anxiety skyrocketing and sabotaging his work. More fresh air even, something he had been stubbornly disregarding for the first 25 years of his life.

It didn't work. His skin continued to get paler, if that was even possible, his heart continued to act up, which he'd chalked up to the coffee, and he kept getting winded from the three flights of stairs leading up to his apartment. Even Helle's mild annoyance was slowly turning into proper concern.

"You will go to the doctor tomorrow," they announced one night. Beck groaned, but didn't argue.

"Okay."

"And I am not feeding from you tonight."

Well... that was good news, at least. "Do I really look that bad?" Helle sighed, almost exasperated, as though Beck should've known how heavy this had been weighing on their unbeating heart or whatever. Maybe he did look that bad, from the outside. "S-sorry. Thank you for, um... caring," he finished quietly, unsure of the wording.

They scoffed. "I am not condemning myself to drinking from some sick human." They grabbed his phone from the table and shoved it into his hands. "You should actually look up your symptoms. Now."

"Helle, I don't know how to explain this... online medical stuff is not the best source of–"

"That is why you are going to the doctor tomorrow. But until then–" They nodded towards the phone, still looking at him expectantly. "I want to know, too. What I can potentially expect. Is it deadly? Do I need to be looking for a new human? These are important things, you know."

Beck unlocked his phone and started typing in the name of the most trustworthy page in this realm of the internet that he could think of. He wondered whether Helle had ever had to deal with a long-term bloodbag getting a little too sick. Or had they always been a one-off kinda vampire? Surely, they should've been aware that this sort of thing could have severe health complications.

"So?" God, they sounded so impatient.

"Whatever it is, I'm not gonna die from it tonight. I swear."

Helle rolled their eyes and continued pacing. Why were they anxious about this? He should've been the one pacing and fearing for his life! And if he had been able to muster up the energy for it, he would've been.

"Anaemia," he said after a few more minutes. "That's the most likely, and um... it... it would make sense, I suppose. I probably should've thought about that..."

"Anaemia," Helle repeated, lost in thought. They didn't say anything for a long moment, and Beck didn't know whether that was a good or a bad sign. "I am not waiting until tomorrow. Get dressed."

"Wh– what?"

"I said get dressed."

It wasn't often that Helle sounded so serious. Whenever they did, Beck always got this sense of impending doom, like something utterly terrible was going to happen. What else could make an immortal, aloof vampire act so... weird?

He silently got up from the sofa and went to his bedroom, putting on some random clothes and a mask as quickly as he could. Was this thing deadlier than he realised? Had Helle lost many bloodbags to severe anaemia before? He didn't know, he was too afraid to ask, and he chose to believe it was simply an out of touch vampire's buyer's remorse.

"Are we going to a hospital?" he asked timidly as he stepped out of the bedroom, and Helle nodded. "In the middle of the night?"

"Are there no emergency care facilities in the whole of the city?" they snapped, and Beck decided to just let them do whatever they wanted. The worst that could happen to him in an ER was a bit of a scolding for wasting time. The worst Helle could do? Well. He knew which one he was going to choose.

He just hoped Helle wasn't about to threaten any nurses in the name of his... health.

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Severe anaemia. Blood transfusion.

Beck stared at the nurse as they brought out the needle to take a sample of his blood, still in a daze when it pierced his skin. If Helle hadn't trained him better, he might've jerked his arm away.

What was going on?

The charmed employees gave no reaction to Helle's little joke about his blood being 'A plus, I mean, positive', just as they gave none to their presence in general. They moved through protocol as though everything was normal, giving Beck a rundown on what was about to take place and how.

"It could take up to four hours, but we might help it along a little. It's a wonder you were walking around like this without... well, dropping dead."

Beck gave a nervous chuckle. "Um, yeah, I guess... I don't know, I thought I was just not getting enough sleep."

The nurse gave him a look. "Of course. I assume the vampire bite scars on your wrist have nothing to do with the anaemia."

Right. He forgot that she could just... see that. "Uh..."

"I'm not here to judge, you're neither the first nor the last victim I treat. But it's good to be honest with healthcare professionals, yeah? I know there's a bit of a stigma around it in certain places, but the emergency room is not one of them."

Beck nodded mutely. He didn't dare look at Helle. Despite them causing the anaemia in the first place, he had to admit that he was grateful to them for forcing him to come in. Who knew how long he would've continued walking around like that? Maybe he would've dropped dead.

Once he was left alone in the room, Helle cleared their throat. "Well..."

"Thank you," he said without much prompting, knowing perfectly well that was what the vampire wanted to hear. It was easier to say now, when he actually felt grateful, as opposed to all the times when they wrung the words from him through sheer terror. "I wouldn't have come in without you. Definitely not to the emergency room, but... not even to my GP."

Helle leaned against the wall with a smile on their face. They seemed pleased. "Oh, do continue. I love praise like that."

"Will you stay? For the... the entirety of the four hours?" He nodded towards the needle, shifting uncomfortably. "I, um... I could use the distraction. Please."

"Are you afraid of needles?"

"Could you sound a little less excited about it?"

Helle shook their head, the amusement never leaving their face. "You do know you will get transfusions a lot, yes? I mean, most likely. Bloodbags and thralls get them a lot."

"Could you not remind me?" he asked, even whinier.

They laughed, then walked over and sat in the other comfortable chair next to his. "Would you still like me to stay?"

"If you're just gonna make it worse, then, then maybe not," he muttered. "No, wait– I changed my mind, I don't care. You can make it worse. I just don't– I don't wanna be alone."

"Oh, I have full permission?" They leaned over and poked the tube a little, and Beck almost yanked his arm away. Again.

"D-don't mess with the needle!" God, he was so trapped. He couldn't just run away with an IV in his arm. "I meant– I don't care what you say, but don't– don't do that! Please!"

"But it looks so tasty. I could rip it out and use it as a straw."

"Okay, maybe I do want you to leave."

Helle grinned, very satisfied with their own performance. "I am quite good at making others uncomfortable, am I not? It is a skill I have perfected over three hundred years."

Beck could only nod, miserable and exhausted. "Can you... not put all that experience to use for just two minutes? Respectfully."

"Two minutes? My darling, darling Beck. You want me to sit here and chat away for four hours." They sighed dramatically. "But yes, I suppose I could dial it back a little. Just for you."

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#at my beck and call #whump #whump writing #helle #beckett #vampire whumper #sickfic #blood transfusion #hospital setting #needles

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escapismsworld · 6 months

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Blundell's blood transfusion apparatus, 19th century. London, England. Science Museum.

James Blundell (1790-1878) was a British obstetrician. He performed the first recorded successful human-to-human blood transfusion in 1818, using the patient’s husband as the donor.

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whumpypepsigal · 11 months

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Blood & Gold (2023): “Your daughter is the reason you’re still alive.”

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macgyvermedical · 2 months

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May I ask what would happen if you transfused blood directly from one person to another, assuming the blood types are compatible? This would be a bit of an emergency situation.

First, read this post.

There would probably be a higher risk of bloodborne illnesses, and it's hard to do a white tile test with 100% accuracy if that's all you've got in the way of testing for compatibility.

But it would be possible as outlined here. (sorry for the FF.Net link, AO3 was not loading, but it is on AO3 too).

#whump reference #writing reference #blood transfusion #walking blood bank

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how-much-for-a-whump · 1 year

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Tetikçinin Oğlu 2. Bölüm

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

#turkish #turkish series #whump #male whump #shot #hospital #checking pupils #blood #blood transfusion #iv #cared for #comfort #unconscious #tetikçinin oğlu #Genci Özak #timuçin esen

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paperandsong · 2 years

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Love and Blood Transfusions

The first successful human to human blood transfusion recorded was performed in 1818 by English obstetrician James Blundell. His patient was a woman suffering post-partum hemorraging and her donor was her husband, setting up a classic image of blood transfusion seen in numerous 19th century medical drawings, beginning with this one from an 1829 article Blundell wrote for The Lancent medical journal:

Blundell himself advised that only men should donate as their blood “flowed more freely and they were less prone to fainting”. Women received the blood, men provided it. (Source: Moulin 123).

It was only in 1900 that Austrian physian Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are three human blood groups. Prior to this discovery, and probably even a number of years after it, blood transfusions were extremely risky and often fatal.

When Dr. Van Helsing decides who will give Lucy blood, he has no knowledge of cross matching the donors with the patient. He makes his decision first based on age and strength, deciding that John Seward would make a better donor than an old man like himself. However, when Lucy’s fiancé Arthur enters the scene, Van Helsing decides he is the better choice.

Because of this relationship between marriage, sex, pregnancy, and blood transfusion, Van Helsing sees the treatment as an intimate act. Lucy’s veins “pine” for blood the way she might also “pine” for her fiancé. Arthur also sees the blood transfusion as an intimate and sacrificial act, a demonstration of his love for Lucy.

Blood Transfusion at Hôpital de La Pitié, Paris, France, 1874

When it is Dr. Seward’s turn to donate his blood to Lucy, he also sees it as a sacrificial act of love, and he secretly confesses that love in his diary:

For all the professed love swirling about Lucy, all of this is wrong. Using Van Helsing’s pseudo-scientific blood donation algorithm, Lucy was more likely to die from a hemolytic transfusion reaction than from vampirism. Never once did they consider a family member or woman as a donor. If Mina had been there I bet she would have had something to say about it.

Illustration by Edward Gorey

I recommend this article, “On the First Medical Blood Transfusion Between Human Subjects, 1818” by Matthew Rowlinson, for in depth analysis of blood transfusion and gender in Gothic literature.

#dracula daily #bram stoker #dracula #blood transfusion

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thewhumpcaretaker · 1 month

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You're being so good. So brave. Look how well you take me, baby. Look how I'm filling you up, there's so much of me inside you now. Can you feel its heat, swelling within you? You're getting so flushed, mmm, this makes me dizzy.

- Me, saving his life with a blood transfusion

#nsfwhump #blood transfusion #whump humor #whump jokes

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nucifraga · 2 months

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fun fact !!

you can now donate blood in the UK if you've had a a blood transfusion since 1980. before november (2023), this wasn't allowed due to the mad cow / vCJD outbreak that began in 1980.

#tmagp vague #tmagp #blood transfusion #how do I even tag this #fun fact #this came to me because I was literally revising it the day before tmagp9 dropped #the magnus protocol

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wikipediapictures · 4 months

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Packed red blood cells

#packed red blood cells #blood #blood transfusion #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #medicine #medcore #medicalcore #medicore #medical #hospital #hospitals #hospitalcore #iv blood transfusion #intravenous #blood bank #medical aesthetic #hospital aesthetic

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kayamark · 1 year

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Never say goodbye (2021)

Ep 35

#never say goodbye #cdrama #chinese whump #whump community #whump #asian whump #male whump #bleeding #fainting #hospital #blood transfusion

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abybweisse · 8 months

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Ch204, Spoilers (part 2)

Part two of the untranslated ch204 spoilers under the cut.

It's possible that Theo is now preparing to risk his life to get to the bottom of all this and shut down the facility. He seems to have found some new resolve.

He knows they can't get off the orphanage property by the usual means, thanks to all the watchful eyes, barriers, and snipers. But he knows they have to do something.

Maybe if they grab jars of organs to show the other kids, they can get more people to help them revolt against the staff?

Finny flashes back momentarily to when he was found by the earl and Sebastian, as he escaped from a hatch in the ground. Then there's a sound coming from down the hall? Either Snake turns off his flashlight, or it loses power; idk which.

But with that light off, they can see light coming from around an ajar door down the hall. For some reason, they think this might be a way to escape? Snake (one of his snakes) says something, and the kids head to this door.

When they open it, they see Doll dressed in a toga and getting a blood transfusion.

Doll is 100% Canopus.

And I can tell that Doll says "Snake...?"

Well, well, well. What will Snake do now?

And now there's no way for Theo to pretend like he doesn't know what's going on, so how are they all going to handle this?

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didanawisgi · 1 month

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#covid-19 vaccine #covid-19 #blood transfusion #dna contamination #fibrinaloids #amyloid-like domains #print this off later

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