So, JW's are still forbidden from donating blood. Gotcha. But I'm confused about how the HLC ever gets wind of the JW in the hospital? Aside from the obvious calling the elders when someone is in the hospital, isn't there ever a time when the ill one doesn't want them there? Isn't that the time when you can sneek blood if you need it? How do they know your condition without reading your chart? That is confidential, right? Where do hospital ethics prevent others from reading your records? Where is the confidentiality?
I could, in all honesty, get away with taking blood and no one being the wiser. All I would have to do is explain that any treatment is confidential because of the HLC, and that I don't want them there interfering. If questioned by elders later on why I didn't want the HLC involved, I would say that it's confidential. It would be a legal thing. If they tried a JC with me, I'd get a lawyer involved.
Does the HLC have access to my records? Am I way off on all of this?