2008-12-07, 08:29 PM
Katie Wrote:It's not that it's not easy to find, it's that it's the universal donor so O- is the one being used the most which puts it in super high demand.
I'm not sure about America, but here, 7% of the population or less has O-. It is also in extremely high demand for donation here too. I would donate more often myself, but giving blood has a really bad effect on me.
Harrisonized Wrote:I'll just get O- blood and that pretty much guarantees that I won't die.
A low percentage of people have O-. You have to take into account the fact that is the ONLY type they can receive (unlike other types). Giving someone a type that is not their own is done when their own CANNOT be given (they will ALWAYS try to give you your own type first before giving you another type, unless it is an emergency situation), for whatever reason. So if you are going by that mentality, would you feel okay knowing that by taking O- blood you could be depriving an O- person of a transfusion?
Really can't believe a doctor is making you pay to know your blood type O_O I'm not sure if my blood type is on my birth cert or not, but my whole family, including both my parents, are all the same type O_o They don't charge you for basic medical info like that here.