Naomi Campbell and blood donation

[oramar]

Normally I give little attention to supermodels but the nosey news is running a story about how Naomi Campbell was rejected at a blood donation drive when she attempted to donate blood The way they did it made me cringe. The headline is written as if to insinuate she has a horrible disease when the fact is that the rejection was over a mundane thing. The story then reveals that she had recent surgery causing everyone to assume it was cosmetic surgery. This all happened in Brazil and perhaps the rules are different down there but as far as I am concerned the womans privacy was violated in a very ugly way. The way the whole situation was reported was enough to cause a person to fear offering to donate blood because of the possiblity of public humiliation. I think the medical community needs to do some damage control quickly because it could see a sudden drop in blood donations due to the negative publicity. If the hospital where the rejection occured had anything to do with the information getting out steps need to be taken to keep it from happening again. I think that is unlikely to happen in US but I wouldn't rule it out. If it happens that someone innocently gave the story to the news media it should be pointed out to members of the news media that they or they or a loved could need a blood transfusion at anytime. This story was handled in a most disgraceful manner, there was no need to report it at all and certainly was not necessary to use it to smear the woman name. However, it's the potential for negative reprecussions through out the medical community that makes the story so disgusting. PS Naomi went to Brazil on a humanitary mission, it is inexcusible that a completely different story from the one she was trying to promote was published by the media.

[cheshirecat]

Agree with Silverdragon, I think it is because Naomi Campbell is British and everyone knows we are all mad cows!!!