Holiday reading: An intercultural and semi-confessional reflection on blood donation.

摘要

As health care workers, we, the authors, identified here as Younger Sarah and Older Sarah, know how important safe blood products are, so we donate here in Canada. Recently Younger Sarah went to donate in Australia. (Sarah was in Australia and went to give blood. She did not actually go to Australia for the purpose of donating blood. That would be silly.) As we Sarahs were talking about our experiences, we came to appreciate that there are emotional nuances and intercultural differences between Canadian and Australian blood donation. We share our observations now to enrich understanding and - we hope- to motivate people to donate.