Was it too risky for Jennifer to donate blood to Jose?
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Re: Was it too risky for Jennifer to donate blood to Jose?
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I feel the same way. Letting someone die when I could have saved them from certain death, would haunt me and eventually eat me up inside.Anirudh Badri wrote: ↑17 Nov 2017, 11:52 The risk from drawing too much blood, while real, is much less of a risk to me than letting someone die when I could possibly save them. I think she made the right call since there was not a great deal of hope for Jose otherwise
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That's a very good point. Its so easy to just gloss over the realistic parts for the sake of fiction, such as how much she gave and not questioning her knowledge. There's some lee way with poetic license, but if readers start questioning it, you know that it went to farashley_claire wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017, 07:43 I agree that it was the right thing to do but the amount she was able to donate was suspicious. I also found it odd that nobody ever asked her to show them exactly how she did the test. Being that it's a group of scientists and research students, I would think that's something they would want to know just for curiosity's sake.
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In reality though, I think I would have been too scared to do what she did. Although I'm truly impulsive, I'm also working very hard to shed a long ingrained type A persona, and I wonder if I could do something like that in real time scenario.
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Yeah, it seemed unrealistic to me too that she should give so much without anyone really questioning it. I mean, the body only has like 6 pints of blood anyway, right? She took out half her blood and no one batted an eye? Hard to believe, and moments like these do draw the reader out of a story, which is what we don't want.micoleon13 wrote: ↑04 Jan 2018, 16:08That's a very good point. Its so easy to just gloss over the realistic parts for the sake of fiction, such as how much she gave and not questioning her knowledge. There's some lee way with poetic license, but if readers start questioning it, you know that it went to farashley_claire wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017, 07:43 I agree that it was the right thing to do but the amount she was able to donate was suspicious. I also found it odd that nobody ever asked her to show them exactly how she did the test. Being that it's a group of scientists and research students, I would think that's something they would want to know just for curiosity's sake.
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