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Need To Know | The truth about transfusions | PBS

Duration: 02:25
Program: Need to Know #116
Broadcast Date: Aug. 20, 2010

Members of the medical community are questioning how blood transfusions are used, and are concluding that, for many patients, the risks outweigh the benefits.

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