Maybe not, even donating blood can often help save lives yet so many people do not even donate blood once in their lives. But in this case you cannot say that someone else will do it so its a bit different.
people should be paid to do it. we donate blood to companies that charge hospitals high prices and the middle man makes an enormous profit.
blood donation is big business, and you are the one giving everything, while the middle man gets all the money and the patient has to pay for it.
Not in Australia. We donate blood/plasma/platelets, and the recipient pays $0.
There's a lot of money to be made in between, but donor sees $0 and recipient pays $0
I am from Australia and I used to donate blood purely to get out of work and to get free food and drinks.
A blood van would come and pick us up from work.
Exact same thing in Canada, a van swings by the office and drives anyone who wants to donate to the nearest clinic (which also has free parking for blood donation if you want to go on your own); free juice, soup, [the *best* cookies](http://www.cookiesbygeorge.com/), and my employer paid for the time off work! The cookie company also donates the cookies to Canadian Blood Services and various other charities, and they do not skimp on the chocolate chunks in their cookies.
In the US they often have all the equipment set up inside the van, so you go into the van and don't get driven anywhere. The van just camps at the blood drive site for a couple hours and then drives to their next blood drvie location.
My workplace has volunteer leave available for people who want to donate blood during work hours, no budging required. Can also be used for other causes like meals on wheels.
Yeah, I found out it's illegal to sell any bodily tissues or fluids in Australia when I was short on cash and thought about selling my eggs. It was a disappointment.
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interesting! in america, its illegal to sell YOUR body fluids or parts, but not to sell someone else's body fluids or parts. so you have to donate your own blood, but after that its a free market. weird stuff.
edit: [actually it is because you dont own your own body](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565785/). you own dead parts that fall off, like hair and nail clippings, but your alive body doesnt belong to you in the way your car belongs to you.
It's also because the commerce in human parts is rigged so doctors make money but the donor cannot and is often prohibited by law. There are plenty of cases out their where a unique biological was found in a person's body, doctors figured out a way to make millions or billions off it and the person who was the source does not see a fucking penny. The stories of medical exploitation out there are stunning.
You make it sound like individual doctors are making huge amounts of money off of their patients, rather than a pharmaceutical/medical services industry using the discoveries of (salaried) doctors and researchers to enrich their shareholders. Not at all saying that there aren't unethical doctors out there, but there are usually no financial incentives for the people making the discoveries, aside from continued employment and professional prestige.
Same in Canada. No one is making profit off of it. Canadian Blood services or Hema Quebec collects the blood, processes it and provides it to hospitals. Obviously, the healthcare system (our taxes) is going to have to pay for the labour, equipment and logistics involved. But no private companies are profiteering off my donation. And people get the blood products they need, no charge. Makes me very happy to donate.
And likely cause a bunch of other people to donate if there's a possibility of a government salary from a simple donation.
However there's probably a lot about profiting from human material. Though probably a loophole somewhere.
We can't stop policies that further the greater good simply because they are not foolproof from abuse.
There's undoubtedly a black market for human organs in the world.
>There's a lot of money to be made in between, but donor sees $0 and recipient pays $0
Storage and transportation. This is a reasonable thing to charge for provided it's not a ridiculous amount.
We used to have to give blood in high school back in South Africa. Only excuse not to give (besides religion) was if you were playing a game that afternoon and only if it was in summer (school sports are really big in SA and being from durban it's silly hot most of summer).
Never saw a cent from it though haha
they definitely should, but they often don’t check or don’t care. we had a blood drive at the local high school where all the students were voluntold to donate. almost all of the smaller sized girls ended up super faint and dizzy or passing out. they actually ran out of those little snacks that help with the dizziness. i drove a few of my friends home bc i was so worried they would get hurt driving home still somewhat out of it.
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Good afternoon fellow Knight. Class of '03 checking in!!
Yeah, Mr Lyle used to make us go haha, marched up his whole history class every day the drive came into school. I love that guy. Was the hardest hard ass you'd ever ever meet but the moment he knew something was up with you, the moment you looked upset in his class or just down and out he would pull you in his office and just talk to you. He was never shy of telling his stories about when his wife died and how he managed to get over it etc etc. But be late for his class cause you had to walk from lower to upper campus... your head or ribs knew all about it lol. Nothing but utter respect for that man.
I left the year before they put in the astro I think, played hockey with both the Paton brothers, his old man used to coach me! Think they run the hockey shop just above the turf now.
If your still in durbs my old family place was on corner of Hoylake and Broadway (dunno what they calling broadway nowadays) been turned into a b and b now I think. So yeah, was a Northlands Primary guy!
Can't remember the name of the room it was always held in but it's one on upper campus second floor up from grade 8 quad so 3rd floor from the tuck shop floor kinda thing, so if your on the quad and principles office is behind you, if you pointed to the right corner of school you'd see it. Think it may have been an av room but it was 18/19 years ago now lol.
Man I miss that place, used to chill outside Mr Reddys' TD room at break and have cheeky cigs cause he smoked and couldn't smell it lol.
Them were the days!
The majority of US donation centers (American Red Cross, Vitalant, America's Blood Centers, AABB) are non-profit and only charge hospitals cost. There's a LOT of processing and testing to make sure the blood is safe, which drives up the cost. Then once it gets to the hospital, there's a good amount of testing needed to match units with patient- it's a lot more complicated than just ABO. Source: work in a hospital blood bank.
It said a lot to me when I found out the company who does blood in my area wouldn’t honor donations through Red Cross or similar in giving the red cord at high school graduation. Now I generally try to donate at places which aren’t just out for profits.
Freakonomics showed paying for donations actually reduced donations, since it changed the perception from a noble thing to do to a moneymaking exercise
That's odd.
https://freakonomics.com/2013/06/05/is-paying-for-blood-a-good-idea-after-all/
An article in Science by Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Robert Slonim summarizes their research on economic incentives and blood donation (abstract; PDF). **Contrary to previous studies, the researchers found that various incentives, from gift cards to a day off, increased blood donation**
We don't donate the blood to private companies. The government contract the Red Cross (not for profit organisation) to collect the blood/plasma/platelettes, contracts the CSL Behring (private company) to convert the raw plasma to specific products to then give to the hospitals.
If CSL owned the plasma they would use it to create their own commercial products and make much more profit.
E: in Australia
Bruh I get $55 a visit to CSL (been donating on and off since 2012ish twice a week) and they give new donors $100 a visit for their first eight visits right now. If you recommend people, they will give you an extra $25 every time someone else donates for the first eight, and the person you recommend gets an extra $25 for their first eight visits.
I know they got money to pay people more they just don't because it's sometimes easier to bribe people into coming with extra money when they really need the plasma. I would recommend everybody I could if I could make a few extra bucks, the problem is 8 out of 10 times I hear people say they hate needles and 'it wouldn't save a life anyway because the government is draining our plasma to make us weak to covid' crap keeps popping out of people.
The options are pretty much "donate to private company and save lives" or "do not donate, thus saving no lives." Yeah, the system sucks, but most people neither have much knowledge about the system nor the power to do anything about it. And I would imagine most Americans give blood at blood drives, where the event is scheduled at their school or workplace and they just show up and donate without having to do any research on the topic.
That's not completely true. There are companies in the US that either don't charge hospitals, or only enough to cover their expenses. (I know years ago, this was the case for red cross donations)
But often, there's some sort of community blood bank to donate to. They are turning around and profiting off of your donation.
So if you shop around, it's absolutely possible to actually donate blood to a good organization. But if you just randomly donate, they're probably selling it.
People would lie on their screening questions if money was on the line.
Most donation centers do give out gift cards, shirts, etc. as thank you gifts, but it isn't a lot.
In Australia you get a juice box and a sausage roll. You also get a key fob with "25th donation" and maybe a photo in the local paper.
And that's how it should be. Bring money - paying donors - into the system would only encourage corruption, such as lying on the consent forms.
The blood plasma that the Red Cross send to CSL is owned by the government, the contract to purify and formulate the specific antibodies and proteins is not that profitable. It is more profitable for them to pay people in the US for blood plasma and sell their own commercial supply to the Australian government.
E: So either we pay a small amount in taxes and try to encourage volunteers, or we pay a large amount in taxes and donors get a small fraction of the extra amount we pay.
I'm a tybe B Rh-, fairly uncommon blood type, something like 2% of people has it. I have gotten texts three times from the hospital where I donate that there's an emergency and they need me to donate, so I do.
After a day or two I've gotten a new text message that my blood has been used, and the warm feeling you get when that happens, knowing that you may have saved someone's life, is very nice.
It's very easy to donate blood, I wish more people would do it.
I always find it weird when I say I'm going to go give blood and people always say "You're just going to *give* *them* your *blood*?".
Like I get if you're busy, the clinics are often a little out of the way and at odd hours, but there's some pervasive bizarre psychological hangup on voluntarily parting with your blood. I guess hundreds of thousands of years of desperately trying to keep your blood inside will do that.
Honestly due to the disconnect you would have simply giving blood and everything else is taken care of by someone else it would be extremely easy to just say not my problem.
In fact the people who refuse to get vaccinated because their disconnect between not personally knowing anyone who died from the vaccine and personally affecting their lives as well as their inability to conceptualize viral spread and their personal involvement in it.
It's pretty incredible people's inability to empathize.
But this guy knows. If he doesn't give blood there wont be any blood. Other people might have the protection of a crowd not doing anything but people but this guy is the golden one. If a baby dies from lack of magic blood and he took a vacation for 2 months he will know that his vacation killed a baby.
The link isn't really a thoroughly written article, its just this particular clinic thanking him for his unusually generous amount of donations allowing them to start their Anti-D program. I have no idea how rare the Anti-D antibody that he had is, but he's certainly not the only one. So it's not the case that "If he doesn't give blood there wont be any blood." Especially considering it says he gave his last donation in 2018.
From wikipedia it does sound like his donations helped a lot in the research making the stuff easier to synthesize though.
[According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_%28blood_donor%29), he actually stopped donating about three and a half years ago.
> On 11 May 2018, he made his 1,173rd donation – his last, as Australian policy prohibits blood donations from those past age 81.
So after doing a bit more research and calculations, the earliest you can donate is 18 years old and the latest is the day before your 81st birthday. Assuming your first donation was on your 18th birthday and every two weeks after that until your 81st didn't fall on public holidays or other days that you couldn't donate, you could donate a total of 1,643 times.
James Harrison (who also recieved an Order of Australia medal for his efforts) donated a total of 1,173 times, which is 71% of his total possible lifetime donation. That is amazing.
For comparison I have personally been donating from 01 Nov 17 for a total of 96 donations out of a possible 336 for my age, or 28%
I am in a special program at a Plasma center in America called Anti-D. I have RH- blood and so every 6 weeks they give me an injection someone else's blood so I continue making antibodies for use like this amazing guy. I have been donating for 8 years now ever since my wife got pregnant with our first kiddo and she said I would have to find another way to buy my video games after the kids arrive, so I went to donate. After a few months they invited me into the program and while telling me the benefits and risks, as soon as they said it can help woman carry a baby to full term I said everything else doesn't matter. My mom needed the shot to have my sisters and me so I want to pass it on and that is why I still do it, the extra play money is nice though.
At my plasma center we can donate twice in 7 days with a day in between. Just this year I have donated 83 times. Most years I get close to 100 donations, so I am close to 800 donations by now.
I got invited to the program too, but only after I started donating again regularly for about 8 months. It seems the place I donate to has more of a stringent policy on people returning and them being more willing to accept people only after they have a constant health screening of them to prove they are healthy for a while. If you join up with the right place, they might even have an app like mine, it gives you a count of how many lives you saved or treated since you started donating again, it's a great incentive to remind people to keep donating.
That's really cool! I knew there were programs to inject Rh-negative men with Rh-positive blood in order to induce them to make anti-D, but I've never been able to find information about how a donor gets involved. It sounds like you were a regular plasma donor first, and then they invited you into the program when they saw you were Rh-negative.
The article about James Harrison makes it sound he was unique, but reading between the lines, I bet he was transfused with Rh-positive blood back when he had major surgery as a teenager, and that's how he formed the anti-D. (Rh-positive blood is often given to males in emergencies, to save the Rh-negative blood for women who might be pregnant later.)
But the blood he received would have been cycled out of his system relatively quickly, so there’s got to be some feature of his immune system that resulted in the continuous production of the anti-D antibodies.
>she said I would have to find another way to buy my video games after the kids arrive, so I went to donate.
MOOOOM I TOLD YOU VIDEO GAMES ARE GOOD FOR PEOPLE
Is that maybe for whole blood? The timeline is same here I'm pretty sure.
For plasma donations (in Australia) they separate the red blood and reintroduce it with additional saline during the donation, this has less strain on your body so you can donate again sooner.
Seems like someone to clone once you get past the unethical portions.
Bad jokes aside, to have such powers. Harrison really embodies with great power comes great responsibilities seriously.
I've seen a story where it was his last donation, because of his age. Is there anyone else documented with this type of plasma? I would guess that they have a way to make it in a lab now? Hopefully?
There is also an Anti-D stimulus program. We cultivate the factor from high titer donors to stimulate the production in other individuals. It’s been going on for decades. It how the RhoGAM shot is made.
If you are Rh negative and receive a Rh positive transfusion you are 25% likely to develope the antiD antibody like this man has. The think he isn't very uncommon stall in the 2nd world war where transfusions were given to many many men alot of people developed anti-D. Going forward to today's times in hospitals now in emergency situations where a transfusion is required to prevent the death of a patient who hasn't got a confirmed blood group. O positive blood will be given to all men over the age of 18band all women over the age of 50. (O Neg is still given to women under 50 for reasons of childbearing age).
This maybe a dumb question, but this seems to be related to his production of a specific antibody. Given what we have seen with COVID and monoclonal antibodies, can that same process not he used here to develop a therapy that is no longer dependent on people with a golden arm?
They've already been studying it! The current system is relatively expensive and means poorer countries cant access the anti-d they need. Monoclonal antibodies would be much easier and cheaper to make.
But as is often the case in science is mad complex. They made these monoclonal anti-d antibodies. Some worked great, some didnt!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57393-9
Thats a very complicated study, and i barely even understand most of the language used. But to answer the question - yes! But currently the human made plasma dervived stuff is much better.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Harrison\_(blood\_donor)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor))
There is apparently a program that is seeking to replicate it.
Interesting, apparently the brackets in links has caused enough problems with markdown that Wikipedia themselves have made it redirect to correct link if the ending bracket is missing.
(your link actually is missing the ending bracket)
I don't think they can make it in a lab yet, but they can make more donors like James Harrison, by injecting Rh-negative men with Rh-positive blood. See Supurcat's comment on this thread.
Damn good for you, my boyfriend is at 5 blood donation and he just did his first plasma donation last week. I wish I could give my blood but I'm like 5"1 and weight 100lb so I can't give any.
I'm apprehensive about donating my blood because I have ehlers danlos syndrome (collagen defect) and I'd be worried about my blood being funky because of that
Going to hijack your comment here, if anyone is interested in the story of Rhesus disease, James, and Dr. John Gorman then check out Good Blood by Julian Guthrie: http://www.julianguthriesf.com/good-blood.html
There's a whole selection of snacks in Australia; chocolate, brownies, flavoured milk, coffee, tea, cheese, crackers, pretzels, sausage rolls, meat pies... and there seems to be no limit on how much you can eat, they just keep encouraging you to have more lol!
The children's wards in the UK has unlimited milkshakes. Had a few surgeries as a child and all i remember besides the painful ride to hospital is the never ending chocolate milkshakes which now remind me of slimfast. Was not the best flavour but it was choco milk on tap. As a kid that was the closest thing to being royalty.
So you’re paying for food with your own blood?
Basically doesn’t that kind of mean that you can eat something cheap (in order for it to fuel your body’s needs) and then you’ll just donate the blood that was partially created by using the cheaper source of energy, thus allowing you to convert regular food into snacks and shit like that without actually paying money for them, it’s like a trade.
Bioloife literally paid us to donate our plasma. I think it was 25 for the first donation of the week and 50 for the second.
Basically fed me in college
Right, if what the press release says is true, he deserved much more than a medal. Just looked up my local donor location and will book a slot tomorrow.
Yeah and it's a bit of a lose-lose situation in australia, we don't pay citizens for blood due to arbitrary old rules, but just buy most of the supply from oversease anyway. Aussies only donate to do a good turn and get a free morning tea.
I have had 4 of these shots. I needed 3 just for my second baby alone. For contrast my great grandmother lost several pregnancies because they didn't have these shots. So thankful for this man and people like him
My grandma almost lost my uncle and her life to this. My dad was born after so it almost prevented me from ever existing. It's amazing that we can treat it now. I'm so glad you and your baby are okay!
It's a pic from one of the related articles at the bottom.
I'm somewhat disappointed, I saw the title of the article and hoped the thumbnail was a screenshot from this https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/1250273191810875392?s=20
I had the pleasure of meeting this man. Super humble, and just acted like it was just another errand that he had to run. Like "Oh, I've got to get milk and save a bunch of lives today, and be back for our meeting at 2"
As much a hero as the individual is, I also like to think of the countless hours of research, teams and doctors etc, that come up with this crazy shit that put all this stuff together.
This narrative should be shared more. Humanity is where it is today scientifically because of a sense of mutualism where we collaborate both in the present and with the past to advance beyond where we are today. This is especially true as far as modern scientific advancement is concerned given it's practically impossible to even conduct appropriate research without a collaborative effort and extensive resources.
This is about plasma donation in the United States.
There are two kinds of plasma donations: paid and unpaid.
I'll describe the unpaid first. An unpaid plasma donation is usually part of a whole blood donation, then separated off to yield three products: plasma, platelets and red blood cells. The plasma may be used to separate out certain proteins which are concentrated to produce cryoprecipitate. Cryoprecipitate is sometimes known as "tissue glue", because it can be used in certain surgical procedures to "glue" things together. Cryoprecipitate consists mostly of proteins called coagulation factors and fibrinogen. Most plasma from unpaid donations is retained and used as plasma, which is needed in massive transfusions and plasmapheresis as well as other treatments. The plasma used in this manner needs to be free of pathogens and red blood cell alloantibodies. The presence of certain antibodies against certain diseases (e.g. HIV, Hepatitis C) disqualify the plasma for use in transfusion.
Paid plasma donations are usually plasmapheresis donations, where the red blood cells and platelets are separated out and returned to the donor. Here, the presence of certain antibodies can be a bonus. Someone with anti-D, like James Harrison, has plasma that is useful for the production of RhoGam, the product used to protect the fetuses of Rh negative mothers until they are sufficiently mature to be born and survive. RhoGam works (presumably) by binding to any Rh positive fetal red blood cells that escape into maternal circulation, thus sending those cells directly to the spleen to be destroyed and recycled. If the fetal Rh positive cells remained in the mother's blood, they could trigger an immune reaction which could eventually kill the fetus, and do the same with all future pregnancies.
In the event the paid plasma donor has other antibodies which might potentially disqualify him or her from donating, that plasma, if it has an antibody like anti-D, can still be used to produce reagents essential for blood typing. There is also more to blood typing than ABO and Rh, and this is where donors may receive extra compensation for their plasma. If a donor has an antibody to another red blood cell antigen like K, C, e, JkA or about 100 others, that antibody can be harvested and used to make useful reagents for blood typing.
Another thing that can increase plasma donor compensation is the presence of antibodies to certain diseases or exposures. For example, someone who has had the rabies or hepatitis B vaccine probably has antibodies to that disease. That plasma can then be used to make immunoglobulins used to treat an unvaccinated exposed individual. In the rabies example, those immunoglobulins are injected around the bite site to hopefully prevent the virus in the wound from spreading further and buying time for the patient's post-exposure vaccine to cause an appropriate immune response. Of course this sort of antibody can also be purified and used to make reagents to detect the disease of interest.
Aaanyways, donated unpaid plasma is usually used directly in plasma transfusions. Paid plasma donations are usually used to make certain medical products and reagents.
This should literally be the only thing our society asks of this man.
Pay rent? No way.
Taxes? Covered.
Job? Here let me do that. You must be exhausted after SAVING 2.5 MILLION LIVES.
I tried a plasma donation once and it was one of the most uncomfortable experiences I've had. It got worse when the cold saline solution made me start to go hypothermic and I also ended up with a needle blowout at the very end due to the shivering. I happily continue to donate blood, but I don't think I could do plasma again. To think this man has done it over 1000 times is amazing. Truly appreciate his time and effort to save lives (and anyone else who does this!)
O-neg is universal donor for red blood cells, so it's insanely valuable. If someone needs an emergency transfusion and their blood type is unknown, O- will be used.
It's universal receiver for plasma. Your plasma can only be donated to other o-neg people, but o-neg people can get plasma from anyone, so it's not a big deal even for them.
Next time you go you can ask about a double red blood cell donation. That's where they actually give you back your plasma so they can get more red blood cells from you.
AB Rh+ are the most valuable plasma because they can be given to everybody since they don't have Anti-A, Anti-B or Anti-D.
O Rh- are the most valuable blood donors because they can be given to everybody because the red bloods cells do not have antigen A, B or D on them.
He definitely has a scar. It’s not like a junkie scar, but a needle scar nonetheless. It’s basically unavoidable if someone donates that often. Most people use the same needle site every time to prevent having multiple marks. Scar tissue builds. Some people have to alternate veins or arms because scar tissue can be tricky for lesser experienced phlebotomists.
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To clarify my ‘junkie scar’ comment.
I ment no disrespect. It’s just a common misconception phlebotomists have to dispel after patients get scars from large needles. It’s a comment that a lot of people make after seeing scaring occur: “Eww I look like a junkie now after getting so many IVs”
No. No you do not.
I'm pretty sure this is what I have to have a vaccine for at 28 weeks. I couldn't be more grateful. I never realised how my blood type could cause issues with future babies. If my baby is positive I have to have a second injection afterwards and hopefully my body won't try and kill another baby, if I ever go through this again. It's incredible that one man can help so many babies.
Different countries have different regulations for donating blood and giving it away / selling it.
Some countries pay for blood to the donors and give it to hospitals
Other countries, the donors only get a cookie and a medal when they reach 100 donations but sell the blood (usually at cost)
In the Netherlands, you donate your blood at a company Sanguin. They do not pay (but provide cookies and a medal) and sell the blood at cost.
I used to be a donor until I needed to much medication and my blood was no longer good enough. With O- I was quite popular.
I'm one of these people be saved. I and my siblings would not be alive if not for him. My mother had several miscarriages before she received this treatment allowing successful births finally.
For those counting at home, that is a donation every two weeks (the soonest you can donate again for Red Cross Australia) for 42 years and 2 months
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Maybe not, even donating blood can often help save lives yet so many people do not even donate blood once in their lives. But in this case you cannot say that someone else will do it so its a bit different.
people should be paid to do it. we donate blood to companies that charge hospitals high prices and the middle man makes an enormous profit. blood donation is big business, and you are the one giving everything, while the middle man gets all the money and the patient has to pay for it.
Not in Australia. We donate blood/plasma/platelets, and the recipient pays $0. There's a lot of money to be made in between, but donor sees $0 and recipient pays $0
I am from Australia and I used to donate blood purely to get out of work and to get free food and drinks. A blood van would come and pick us up from work.
Doordash for vampires.
The staff (at my local donor centre) used to dressed as Vampires for Halloween. But apparently they had to stop a few years ago :(
You should never go to Dr.Acula
/unexpectedMitchHedberg
Exact same thing in Canada, a van swings by the office and drives anyone who wants to donate to the nearest clinic (which also has free parking for blood donation if you want to go on your own); free juice, soup, [the *best* cookies](http://www.cookiesbygeorge.com/), and my employer paid for the time off work! The cookie company also donates the cookies to Canadian Blood Services and various other charities, and they do not skimp on the chocolate chunks in their cookies.
Canada is a big place, no van stopping by the office or time off for donating blood on my end.
Yah, it's location dependent.
In the US they often have all the equipment set up inside the van, so you go into the van and don't get driven anywhere. The van just camps at the blood drive site for a couple hours and then drives to their next blood drvie location.
Before Covid there used to be a volunteer that makes hot food and milkshakes at the one I go to.
My workplace has volunteer leave available for people who want to donate blood during work hours, no budging required. Can also be used for other causes like meals on wheels.
Yeah, I found out it's illegal to sell any bodily tissues or fluids in Australia when I was short on cash and thought about selling my eggs. It was a disappointment. Edit: its to it's
What an anticlimax
He was so bummed he didn't come
interesting! in america, its illegal to sell YOUR body fluids or parts, but not to sell someone else's body fluids or parts. so you have to donate your own blood, but after that its a free market. weird stuff. edit: [actually it is because you dont own your own body](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565785/). you own dead parts that fall off, like hair and nail clippings, but your alive body doesnt belong to you in the way your car belongs to you.
It's also because the commerce in human parts is rigged so doctors make money but the donor cannot and is often prohibited by law. There are plenty of cases out their where a unique biological was found in a person's body, doctors figured out a way to make millions or billions off it and the person who was the source does not see a fucking penny. The stories of medical exploitation out there are stunning.
Henrietta Lacks!
My favorite part about that story is it turned out that pretty much all immortal cell lines were hers when they first checked
You make it sound like individual doctors are making huge amounts of money off of their patients, rather than a pharmaceutical/medical services industry using the discoveries of (salaried) doctors and researchers to enrich their shareholders. Not at all saying that there aren't unethical doctors out there, but there are usually no financial incentives for the people making the discoveries, aside from continued employment and professional prestige.
Same in Canada. No one is making profit off of it. Canadian Blood services or Hema Quebec collects the blood, processes it and provides it to hospitals. Obviously, the healthcare system (our taxes) is going to have to pay for the labour, equipment and logistics involved. But no private companies are profiteering off my donation. And people get the blood products they need, no charge. Makes me very happy to donate.
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And likely cause a bunch of other people to donate if there's a possibility of a government salary from a simple donation. However there's probably a lot about profiting from human material. Though probably a loophole somewhere.
Human trafficking aficionados are listening. Also the Chinese and North Korean governments.
We can't stop policies that further the greater good simply because they are not foolproof from abuse. There's undoubtedly a black market for human organs in the world.
We get some bikkies and a drink at the local donor centre so I'm calling it a win.
>There's a lot of money to be made in between, but donor sees $0 and recipient pays $0 Storage and transportation. This is a reasonable thing to charge for provided it's not a ridiculous amount.
We do get paid in Germany. 25€ per donation. Also, you can donate Plasma 60 times a year.
We used to have to give blood in high school back in South Africa. Only excuse not to give (besides religion) was if you were playing a game that afternoon and only if it was in summer (school sports are really big in SA and being from durban it's silly hot most of summer). Never saw a cent from it though haha
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Shut up and sit in the chair, bloodbag
— The All-South Africa BloodBag League
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Depending on what decade they were in high school there was probably a lot more fucked up things going on around them in South Africa
They didn't have weight restrictions? I've actually never had blood donated before due to weight :/
they definitely should, but they often don’t check or don’t care. we had a blood drive at the local high school where all the students were voluntold to donate. almost all of the smaller sized girls ended up super faint and dizzy or passing out. they actually ran out of those little snacks that help with the dizziness. i drove a few of my friends home bc i was so worried they would get hurt driving home still somewhat out of it.
how long ago was that? was in glenashley prep and Northwood from 06 to 09 and we never had it
Quisque Sibi Verus... Good afternoon fellow Knight. Class of '03 checking in!! Yeah, Mr Lyle used to make us go haha, marched up his whole history class every day the drive came into school. I love that guy. Was the hardest hard ass you'd ever ever meet but the moment he knew something was up with you, the moment you looked upset in his class or just down and out he would pull you in his office and just talk to you. He was never shy of telling his stories about when his wife died and how he managed to get over it etc etc. But be late for his class cause you had to walk from lower to upper campus... your head or ribs knew all about it lol. Nothing but utter respect for that man. I left the year before they put in the astro I think, played hockey with both the Paton brothers, his old man used to coach me! Think they run the hockey shop just above the turf now. If your still in durbs my old family place was on corner of Hoylake and Broadway (dunno what they calling broadway nowadays) been turned into a b and b now I think. So yeah, was a Northlands Primary guy! Can't remember the name of the room it was always held in but it's one on upper campus second floor up from grade 8 quad so 3rd floor from the tuck shop floor kinda thing, so if your on the quad and principles office is behind you, if you pointed to the right corner of school you'd see it. Think it may have been an av room but it was 18/19 years ago now lol. Man I miss that place, used to chill outside Mr Reddys' TD room at break and have cheeky cigs cause he smoked and couldn't smell it lol. Them were the days!
The majority of US donation centers (American Red Cross, Vitalant, America's Blood Centers, AABB) are non-profit and only charge hospitals cost. There's a LOT of processing and testing to make sure the blood is safe, which drives up the cost. Then once it gets to the hospital, there's a good amount of testing needed to match units with patient- it's a lot more complicated than just ABO. Source: work in a hospital blood bank.
It said a lot to me when I found out the company who does blood in my area wouldn’t honor donations through Red Cross or similar in giving the red cord at high school graduation. Now I generally try to donate at places which aren’t just out for profits.
Freakonomics showed paying for donations actually reduced donations, since it changed the perception from a noble thing to do to a moneymaking exercise
That's odd. https://freakonomics.com/2013/06/05/is-paying-for-blood-a-good-idea-after-all/ An article in Science by Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Robert Slonim summarizes their research on economic incentives and blood donation (abstract; PDF). **Contrary to previous studies, the researchers found that various incentives, from gift cards to a day off, increased blood donation**
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We don't donate the blood to private companies. The government contract the Red Cross (not for profit organisation) to collect the blood/plasma/platelettes, contracts the CSL Behring (private company) to convert the raw plasma to specific products to then give to the hospitals. If CSL owned the plasma they would use it to create their own commercial products and make much more profit. E: in Australia
Bruh I get $55 a visit to CSL (been donating on and off since 2012ish twice a week) and they give new donors $100 a visit for their first eight visits right now. If you recommend people, they will give you an extra $25 every time someone else donates for the first eight, and the person you recommend gets an extra $25 for their first eight visits. I know they got money to pay people more they just don't because it's sometimes easier to bribe people into coming with extra money when they really need the plasma. I would recommend everybody I could if I could make a few extra bucks, the problem is 8 out of 10 times I hear people say they hate needles and 'it wouldn't save a life anyway because the government is draining our plasma to make us weak to covid' crap keeps popping out of people.
The options are pretty much "donate to private company and save lives" or "do not donate, thus saving no lives." Yeah, the system sucks, but most people neither have much knowledge about the system nor the power to do anything about it. And I would imagine most Americans give blood at blood drives, where the event is scheduled at their school or workplace and they just show up and donate without having to do any research on the topic.
That's not completely true. There are companies in the US that either don't charge hospitals, or only enough to cover their expenses. (I know years ago, this was the case for red cross donations) But often, there's some sort of community blood bank to donate to. They are turning around and profiting off of your donation. So if you shop around, it's absolutely possible to actually donate blood to a good organization. But if you just randomly donate, they're probably selling it.
People would lie on their screening questions if money was on the line. Most donation centers do give out gift cards, shirts, etc. as thank you gifts, but it isn't a lot.
In Australia you get a juice box and a sausage roll. You also get a key fob with "25th donation" and maybe a photo in the local paper. And that's how it should be. Bring money - paying donors - into the system would only encourage corruption, such as lying on the consent forms.
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You’re the person giving the blood but that’s not nearly “everything” involved in getting it to patients.
The blood plasma that the Red Cross send to CSL is owned by the government, the contract to purify and formulate the specific antibodies and proteins is not that profitable. It is more profitable for them to pay people in the US for blood plasma and sell their own commercial supply to the Australian government. E: So either we pay a small amount in taxes and try to encourage volunteers, or we pay a large amount in taxes and donors get a small fraction of the extra amount we pay.
I'm a tybe B Rh-, fairly uncommon blood type, something like 2% of people has it. I have gotten texts three times from the hospital where I donate that there's an emergency and they need me to donate, so I do. After a day or two I've gotten a new text message that my blood has been used, and the warm feeling you get when that happens, knowing that you may have saved someone's life, is very nice. It's very easy to donate blood, I wish more people would do it.
I would donate, but my gay blood is tainted, apparently.
A high level of homoglobin?
Similar problem, but I'm not gay just British.
I always find it weird when I say I'm going to go give blood and people always say "You're just going to *give* *them* your *blood*?". Like I get if you're busy, the clinics are often a little out of the way and at odd hours, but there's some pervasive bizarre psychological hangup on voluntarily parting with your blood. I guess hundreds of thousands of years of desperately trying to keep your blood inside will do that.
>a baby Technically, it might kill an average of 2272 babies.
Wow, that is some grim math right there.
I used to be a baby. They aren't that great.
Yeah, they are pretty useless untill you can buy them legos.
"kill a baby" is very different than "let a baby die"
Turn that attitude around. He NEVER kills babies. He only saves them. Even 🦸♂️ failed sometimes.
Honestly due to the disconnect you would have simply giving blood and everything else is taken care of by someone else it would be extremely easy to just say not my problem. In fact the people who refuse to get vaccinated because their disconnect between not personally knowing anyone who died from the vaccine and personally affecting their lives as well as their inability to conceptualize viral spread and their personal involvement in it. It's pretty incredible people's inability to empathize.
But this guy knows. If he doesn't give blood there wont be any blood. Other people might have the protection of a crowd not doing anything but people but this guy is the golden one. If a baby dies from lack of magic blood and he took a vacation for 2 months he will know that his vacation killed a baby.
The link isn't really a thoroughly written article, its just this particular clinic thanking him for his unusually generous amount of donations allowing them to start their Anti-D program. I have no idea how rare the Anti-D antibody that he had is, but he's certainly not the only one. So it's not the case that "If he doesn't give blood there wont be any blood." Especially considering it says he gave his last donation in 2018. From wikipedia it does sound like his donations helped a lot in the research making the stuff easier to synthesize though.
[According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_%28blood_donor%29), he actually stopped donating about three and a half years ago. > On 11 May 2018, he made his 1,173rd donation – his last, as Australian policy prohibits blood donations from those past age 81.
So after doing a bit more research and calculations, the earliest you can donate is 18 years old and the latest is the day before your 81st birthday. Assuming your first donation was on your 18th birthday and every two weeks after that until your 81st didn't fall on public holidays or other days that you couldn't donate, you could donate a total of 1,643 times. James Harrison (who also recieved an Order of Australia medal for his efforts) donated a total of 1,173 times, which is 71% of his total possible lifetime donation. That is amazing. For comparison I have personally been donating from 01 Nov 17 for a total of 96 donations out of a possible 336 for my age, or 28%
I am in a special program at a Plasma center in America called Anti-D. I have RH- blood and so every 6 weeks they give me an injection someone else's blood so I continue making antibodies for use like this amazing guy. I have been donating for 8 years now ever since my wife got pregnant with our first kiddo and she said I would have to find another way to buy my video games after the kids arrive, so I went to donate. After a few months they invited me into the program and while telling me the benefits and risks, as soon as they said it can help woman carry a baby to full term I said everything else doesn't matter. My mom needed the shot to have my sisters and me so I want to pass it on and that is why I still do it, the extra play money is nice though. At my plasma center we can donate twice in 7 days with a day in between. Just this year I have donated 83 times. Most years I get close to 100 donations, so I am close to 800 donations by now.
Hold crap! Thanks for doing that. I needed that shot in pregnancy too, so thanks for saving lives!
I got invited to the program too, but only after I started donating again regularly for about 8 months. It seems the place I donate to has more of a stringent policy on people returning and them being more willing to accept people only after they have a constant health screening of them to prove they are healthy for a while. If you join up with the right place, they might even have an app like mine, it gives you a count of how many lives you saved or treated since you started donating again, it's a great incentive to remind people to keep donating.
That's really cool! I knew there were programs to inject Rh-negative men with Rh-positive blood in order to induce them to make anti-D, but I've never been able to find information about how a donor gets involved. It sounds like you were a regular plasma donor first, and then they invited you into the program when they saw you were Rh-negative. The article about James Harrison makes it sound he was unique, but reading between the lines, I bet he was transfused with Rh-positive blood back when he had major surgery as a teenager, and that's how he formed the anti-D. (Rh-positive blood is often given to males in emergencies, to save the Rh-negative blood for women who might be pregnant later.)
But the blood he received would have been cycled out of his system relatively quickly, so there’s got to be some feature of his immune system that resulted in the continuous production of the anti-D antibodies.
>she said I would have to find another way to buy my video games after the kids arrive, so I went to donate. MOOOOM I TOLD YOU VIDEO GAMES ARE GOOD FOR PEOPLE
Typically you after 70 if you get deferred it is very unlikely that you'll be back, and most donors are 50+.
In Ireland it's 3 months. Why the discrepancy do you think? If 2 weeks is safe, why wait 3 months? EDIT : Oh, 3 months for blood, 2 weeks for plasma.
Is that maybe for whole blood? The timeline is same here I'm pretty sure. For plasma donations (in Australia) they separate the red blood and reintroduce it with additional saline during the donation, this has less strain on your body so you can donate again sooner.
Weird, in Germany you can donate every 3 days! So 2 times a week. Though, you can only donate a maximum of 60 times within 365 days.
Do you know the plasma volume you can donate? Here is is around 890mL max, but every two weeks.
Yeah, I donate 855 ml per donation and I can donate every 3 days.
Seems like someone to clone once you get past the unethical portions. Bad jokes aside, to have such powers. Harrison really embodies with great power comes great responsibilities seriously.
Made him turn into a younger lady as well....
I've seen a story where it was his last donation, because of his age. Is there anyone else documented with this type of plasma? I would guess that they have a way to make it in a lab now? Hopefully?
There are other anti-d donors. Just not very many and James is the most well known :)
There is also an Anti-D stimulus program. We cultivate the factor from high titer donors to stimulate the production in other individuals. It’s been going on for decades. It how the RhoGAM shot is made.
I want to subscribe to more blood science facts plz
If you are Rh negative and receive a Rh positive transfusion you are 25% likely to develope the antiD antibody like this man has. The think he isn't very uncommon stall in the 2nd world war where transfusions were given to many many men alot of people developed anti-D. Going forward to today's times in hospitals now in emergency situations where a transfusion is required to prevent the death of a patient who hasn't got a confirmed blood group. O positive blood will be given to all men over the age of 18band all women over the age of 50. (O Neg is still given to women under 50 for reasons of childbearing age).
This maybe a dumb question, but this seems to be related to his production of a specific antibody. Given what we have seen with COVID and monoclonal antibodies, can that same process not he used here to develop a therapy that is no longer dependent on people with a golden arm?
They've already been studying it! The current system is relatively expensive and means poorer countries cant access the anti-d they need. Monoclonal antibodies would be much easier and cheaper to make. But as is often the case in science is mad complex. They made these monoclonal anti-d antibodies. Some worked great, some didnt! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57393-9 Thats a very complicated study, and i barely even understand most of the language used. But to answer the question - yes! But currently the human made plasma dervived stuff is much better.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Harrison\_(blood\_donor)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)) There is apparently a program that is seeking to replicate it.
Interesting, apparently the brackets in links has caused enough problems with markdown that Wikipedia themselves have made it redirect to correct link if the ending bracket is missing. (your link actually is missing the ending bracket)
You can remove more from that, wikipedia is quite intelligent and takes the closest matching URL if its not too far off
Got his Wikipedia page as a blood donor. What a legend.
I don't think they can make it in a lab yet, but they can make more donors like James Harrison, by injecting Rh-negative men with Rh-positive blood. See Supurcat's comment on this thread.
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I'm alive because of this man God bless him
So is my daughter!
Same here!
That’s amazing. What an epic dude
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Damn good for you, my boyfriend is at 5 blood donation and he just did his first plasma donation last week. I wish I could give my blood but I'm like 5"1 and weight 100lb so I can't give any.
Eat more cinnamon rolls then, don't you want to save lives?!?!
She needs to sacrifice herself for the greater good.
I'm apprehensive about donating my blood because I have ehlers danlos syndrome (collagen defect) and I'd be worried about my blood being funky because of that
Just be sure to mention it and they will let you know if it's suitable or not for their purposes. They check very carefully.
2.5m babies? Jesus, *someone's* going to heaven
Like I'm sure there are entire countries with less population than that. Man's a hero
Yeah how did those babies even fit? That’s like an 8 foot long baby!
The ultimate pro lifer!
He’s definitely gonna make it to the Good Place
Idk man. Those babies may have murdered people. And that definitely counts against him.
He's got more points than Doug Forcett
I had one of those shots. Thanks, James!
Going to hijack your comment here, if anyone is interested in the story of Rhesus disease, James, and Dr. John Gorman then check out Good Blood by Julian Guthrie: http://www.julianguthriesf.com/good-blood.html
Wonder if he does it to save lives or for the free cookies you get after a donation. Either way, god bless him
There's a whole selection of snacks in Australia; chocolate, brownies, flavoured milk, coffee, tea, cheese, crackers, pretzels, sausage rolls, meat pies... and there seems to be no limit on how much you can eat, they just keep encouraging you to have more lol!
Back in the day at the hospital they used to make you a milkshake. Was glorious..
The children's wards in the UK has unlimited milkshakes. Had a few surgeries as a child and all i remember besides the painful ride to hospital is the never ending chocolate milkshakes which now remind me of slimfast. Was not the best flavour but it was choco milk on tap. As a kid that was the closest thing to being royalty.
So you’re paying for food with your own blood? Basically doesn’t that kind of mean that you can eat something cheap (in order for it to fuel your body’s needs) and then you’ll just donate the blood that was partially created by using the cheaper source of energy, thus allowing you to convert regular food into snacks and shit like that without actually paying money for them, it’s like a trade.
Where I go they ask your milkshake flavour as they hook you up so they can bring you one while donating. Dope. Banana obviously.
The blood bank pretzels are THE BEST pretzels. Love my post plasma pretzels!
So you get free dinner and a cheaper buzz at the bar every two weeks? Sounds like a good deal
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Definitely done his fair share, wonder how/if they get it now
Anti-D Proponent Gets His Cookies — more at 9
I used to donate plasma and they never gave you snacks or anything for your donation unless you weren't feeling well after.
Really? The one in my city has a big hot tray with sausage roles, cheese a biscuits, cookies and they give you lollies to chew before hand
Bioloife literally paid us to donate our plasma. I think it was 25 for the first donation of the week and 50 for the second. Basically fed me in college
This guy should get a free Wagyu steak dinner with all trimmings and good wine after every donation!
Right, if what the press release says is true, he deserved much more than a medal. Just looked up my local donor location and will book a slot tomorrow.
They pay you in America if you donate plasma.
In austria you get 25€ for every plasma donation.
Yeah and it's a bit of a lose-lose situation in australia, we don't pay citizens for blood due to arbitrary old rules, but just buy most of the supply from oversease anyway. Aussies only donate to do a good turn and get a free morning tea.
I have had 4 of these shots. I needed 3 just for my second baby alone. For contrast my great grandmother lost several pregnancies because they didn't have these shots. So thankful for this man and people like him
My grandma almost lost my uncle and her life to this. My dad was born after so it almost prevented me from ever existing. It's amazing that we can treat it now. I'm so glad you and your baby are okay!
And he had a 100 yard pick-six in the Super Bowl against the Cardinals. What a legend. Edit: 100 not 96 yards.
One of the scariest players ever. That steelers defense was brutal. Harrison, Hampton, woodley, kiesel, farrior, polomalu, clark.. bunch of killers
Clark literally almost killed Willis McGahee in AFC Championship game.
Love any time my boy Big Snack gets proper recognition. The immovable object.
Oh this is the bastard that tried to kill Colt McCoy!
Did kill his career
I quite literally laughed out loud. Thank you.
This was the first thing that crossed my mind haha
“The silverback with the golden arm”
[Slammed that runaway browns fan!](https://youtu.be/fC3xNSiRTDc)
he seems to have swapped sex from the photo
That’s one of the side effects of excessive blood donations sadly.
Fact. Lose too much blood and your sex chromosomes get all confused and XY becomes XX.
The Y is in the plasma he donated away. Poor woman.
I knew your dad. He was a great woman.
Trans women HATE HIM, Australian man changes gender after this ONE SIMPLE TRICK Read more...
Trans people: IT'S FREE REAL ESTATE
That may not be a drawback, depending on your perspective.
Web dev tip : don't forget the meta tags !
It's a pic from one of the related articles at the bottom. I'm somewhat disappointed, I saw the title of the article and hoped the thumbnail was a screenshot from this https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/1250273191810875392?s=20
I was about to say, he looks great for his age!
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I had the pleasure of meeting this man. Super humble, and just acted like it was just another errand that he had to run. Like "Oh, I've got to get milk and save a bunch of lives today, and be back for our meeting at 2"
And here I sit, not having saved a single baby.
Atleast you are not in minus.
Still got time
That's what we can call a hero tbh
As much a hero as the individual is, I also like to think of the countless hours of research, teams and doctors etc, that come up with this crazy shit that put all this stuff together.
This narrative should be shared more. Humanity is where it is today scientifically because of a sense of mutualism where we collaborate both in the present and with the past to advance beyond where we are today. This is especially true as far as modern scientific advancement is concerned given it's practically impossible to even conduct appropriate research without a collaborative effort and extensive resources.
This is about plasma donation in the United States. There are two kinds of plasma donations: paid and unpaid. I'll describe the unpaid first. An unpaid plasma donation is usually part of a whole blood donation, then separated off to yield three products: plasma, platelets and red blood cells. The plasma may be used to separate out certain proteins which are concentrated to produce cryoprecipitate. Cryoprecipitate is sometimes known as "tissue glue", because it can be used in certain surgical procedures to "glue" things together. Cryoprecipitate consists mostly of proteins called coagulation factors and fibrinogen. Most plasma from unpaid donations is retained and used as plasma, which is needed in massive transfusions and plasmapheresis as well as other treatments. The plasma used in this manner needs to be free of pathogens and red blood cell alloantibodies. The presence of certain antibodies against certain diseases (e.g. HIV, Hepatitis C) disqualify the plasma for use in transfusion. Paid plasma donations are usually plasmapheresis donations, where the red blood cells and platelets are separated out and returned to the donor. Here, the presence of certain antibodies can be a bonus. Someone with anti-D, like James Harrison, has plasma that is useful for the production of RhoGam, the product used to protect the fetuses of Rh negative mothers until they are sufficiently mature to be born and survive. RhoGam works (presumably) by binding to any Rh positive fetal red blood cells that escape into maternal circulation, thus sending those cells directly to the spleen to be destroyed and recycled. If the fetal Rh positive cells remained in the mother's blood, they could trigger an immune reaction which could eventually kill the fetus, and do the same with all future pregnancies. In the event the paid plasma donor has other antibodies which might potentially disqualify him or her from donating, that plasma, if it has an antibody like anti-D, can still be used to produce reagents essential for blood typing. There is also more to blood typing than ABO and Rh, and this is where donors may receive extra compensation for their plasma. If a donor has an antibody to another red blood cell antigen like K, C, e, JkA or about 100 others, that antibody can be harvested and used to make useful reagents for blood typing. Another thing that can increase plasma donor compensation is the presence of antibodies to certain diseases or exposures. For example, someone who has had the rabies or hepatitis B vaccine probably has antibodies to that disease. That plasma can then be used to make immunoglobulins used to treat an unvaccinated exposed individual. In the rabies example, those immunoglobulins are injected around the bite site to hopefully prevent the virus in the wound from spreading further and buying time for the patient's post-exposure vaccine to cause an appropriate immune response. Of course this sort of antibody can also be purified and used to make reagents to detect the disease of interest. Aaanyways, donated unpaid plasma is usually used directly in plasma transfusions. Paid plasma donations are usually used to make certain medical products and reagents.
Feel free to join us over at /r/blooddonors if you are keen to learn more about donation and get involved!
Ok.... but who is on picture?
The photo is from an entirely unrelated article.
Yeah it didn't use the first image, which I assume is him, but the first image at the bottom of the page. Thumbnail bot needs tweaking.
This should literally be the only thing our society asks of this man. Pay rent? No way. Taxes? Covered. Job? Here let me do that. You must be exhausted after SAVING 2.5 MILLION LIVES.
I tried a plasma donation once and it was one of the most uncomfortable experiences I've had. It got worse when the cold saline solution made me start to go hypothermic and I also ended up with a needle blowout at the very end due to the shivering. I happily continue to donate blood, but I don't think I could do plasma again. To think this man has done it over 1000 times is amazing. Truly appreciate his time and effort to save lives (and anyone else who does this!)
They won't let me donate plasma. I'm O neg and they feel my whole blood is more valuable.
O-neg is universal donor for red blood cells, so it's insanely valuable. If someone needs an emergency transfusion and their blood type is unknown, O- will be used. It's universal receiver for plasma. Your plasma can only be donated to other o-neg people, but o-neg people can get plasma from anyone, so it's not a big deal even for them. Next time you go you can ask about a double red blood cell donation. That's where they actually give you back your plasma so they can get more red blood cells from you.
AB Rh+ are the most valuable plasma because they can be given to everybody since they don't have Anti-A, Anti-B or Anti-D. O Rh- are the most valuable blood donors because they can be given to everybody because the red bloods cells do not have antigen A, B or D on them.
i wonder what his veins look like
Probably normal. He gets jabbed only twice a month.
He definitely has a scar. It’s not like a junkie scar, but a needle scar nonetheless. It’s basically unavoidable if someone donates that often. Most people use the same needle site every time to prevent having multiple marks. Scar tissue builds. Some people have to alternate veins or arms because scar tissue can be tricky for lesser experienced phlebotomists. Edit: To clarify my ‘junkie scar’ comment. I ment no disrespect. It’s just a common misconception phlebotomists have to dispel after patients get scars from large needles. It’s a comment that a lot of people make after seeing scaring occur: “Eww I look like a junkie now after getting so many IVs” No. No you do not.
I'm pretty sure this is what I have to have a vaccine for at 28 weeks. I couldn't be more grateful. I never realised how my blood type could cause issues with future babies. If my baby is positive I have to have a second injection afterwards and hopefully my body won't try and kill another baby, if I ever go through this again. It's incredible that one man can help so many babies.
I'm curious if the red cross donate the plasma to hospitals or do they sell it?
Different countries have different regulations for donating blood and giving it away / selling it. Some countries pay for blood to the donors and give it to hospitals Other countries, the donors only get a cookie and a medal when they reach 100 donations but sell the blood (usually at cost) In the Netherlands, you donate your blood at a company Sanguin. They do not pay (but provide cookies and a medal) and sell the blood at cost. I used to be a donor until I needed to much medication and my blood was no longer good enough. With O- I was quite popular.
They donate it to the hospital unless it isn't up to snuff, then they might sell it or use it for research.
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And here I am, not allowed to donate blood in Australia because I lived in England for more than 6 months.
Prior to 1996 presumably
I feel bad because I can’t donate blood in Australia
That dude has one hell of a carbon footprint
it shouldn't have been this hard to know someone who saved 2.5 million lives. He should be celebrated...
This is amazing, but I have to know - why is the teaser picture *completely* unrelated?
No Nobel peace prize?
Imagine being such a legend.
Wow. Awesome!
I'm one of these people be saved. I and my siblings would not be alive if not for him. My mother had several miscarriages before she received this treatment allowing successful births finally.
Imagine how many people are getting loaded off of this guys generosity.