I knew someone who worked for the um... lets say state department. That person was routinely shepherded for information as per an elder who did it (senile and spilled beans), and also to make sure they weren't shooting anyone or even carrying a gun.
I can't believe RNs aren't constantly talked up by the elders to get info, especially when you think about that old article in the 80s that said spill confidential info which had an abortion illustration, and with this virus anti-body treatment. I showed a paragraph from that article to my doctor when I told him I don't want to be a JW anymore. My doctor assured me he would not put anything in my record (which are now all computerized and hackable in theory, or simply available to a lot of people) about it as he believed a JW seeing some dirt would indeed do what that paragraph told them to do. He has friends whose parents grew up in it.
People are reporting, as seen above, that elders are checking weekly (true in my home) on everyone's health (really looking to see if anyone is in the hospital). Also, they want every elder put on the blood card, and dumb stuff like that. I don't think they'll go soft on this. I think if they find out someone took blood and it was illegal for elders to know, they would hound the person trying to get them to confess. If the person was strong and didn't confess, they would find something else to DF/DA them for, and put a note in their secret file about the transfusion, maybe cryptically. Then they would pass the word among the elders so they knew what they were dealing with for reinstatement.
I mean I'm not saying you can't get away with it, but they are making it hard. I think the trick is not telling anyone you are a JW! I told my doc, because it had interfered with treatments he wanted to do on me.