{"id":197,"date":"2018-09-26T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voland0.xyz\/weblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:22:09","slug":"skirmishes-in-the-battle-against-the-deficiencies-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/voland0.xyz\/weblog\/2018\/09\/26\/skirmishes-in-the-battle-against-the-deficiencies-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Skirmishes in the Battle against the Deficiencies of Language – 2018-9-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

When looking at my emailed Red Cross<\/a> donor card, I saw a solicitation to participate in Power Red<\/a>, a donation that takes twice as many red blood<\/a> cells as a whole blood<\/a> donation<\/a>, but returns most of the other components. It can only be done every four months, instead of every two months, so I wondered if there was a benefit for the people who need it over whole blood donation.<\/p>\n

I followed the links, and found nothing answering my question, so I called the toll-free number<\/a>, and spoke to a Rebecca -or Rebekah; I didn’t ask- who had difficulty understanding the purpose of my call. I interrupted her often, for which I apologized at the end of our transaction, because she was trained to give boiler-plate answers, and I did not wish to endure listening to them. At one point, while waiting for her to look something up, I opined, “Communication is always a challenge”.<\/p>\n

She actually denied that. Wow! I think her self-image is of a good communicator, so my observation clashed with her confirmation bias.<\/p>\n

More than once, she asserted that it was up to me to decide which to do, but I insisted on knowing if there was any difference in the methods, so, she eventually escalated the call. Lewis -or Louis; I didn’t ask- also assumed that my primary consideration was my convenience, apparently; when I realized that, I spelled it out that my convenience had zero value in my calculus: I only wished to know which should be better for the patients needing transfusion. So, I offered the possibility that the Power Red deprived patients of other components, and he admitted that the Power Red does not give the platelets<\/a>, which are of secondary importance, statistically, nor the plasma<\/a>, which is third.<\/p>\n

I concluded that whole blood donations twice as often are better, since I have much flexibility in my schedule at this time, don’t care a whit about being poked, nor even about lying on the bed for a few minutes, because I always enjoy my conversation with the phlebotomists.<\/p>\n

Of course, had I read “between the lines” on that page on Power Red, I could have saved myself some time, and Rebecca some aggravation with me, but, I am not very skilled in that. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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