02178nam a2200325 4500 ESSALUD 20260903150623.0 ta t pe ||||| |||| 00| 0 spa d BMG eng Jacobs, Jeremy W. Autor 54569 Legislating medicine — Directed donation and the politics of patient choice páginas: 1667-1669 In February 2026, members of the Tennessee General Assembly introduced House Bill 2166 (HB 2166, “An Act to Amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 32, Relative to Blood Donations”), which would require blood banks and hospitals to comply with directed-donation requests for patients scheduled for medical procedures. Its sponsors framed the bill as protecting patient choice by ensuring that patients have the right to select what is put into their bodies. The paradox is that the U.S. community blood supply is already among the safest in the world, the product of decades of evidence-based practice, universal donor screening, and rigorous infectious disease testing. HB 2166 does not fix a broken system. Instead, it risks undermining one that already functions safely and effectively — which is precisely why this legislation merits attention in domains beyond the blood bank. The bill exemplifies a broader pattern in which politicians seek to legislate medical practice in ways that override scientific consensus while invoking the language of autonomy and choice. CORONAVIRUS 39659 MEDICAMENTOS, DISPOSITIVOS Y LA FDA 54223 PRESTACIÓN DE SERVICIOS DE ATENCIÓN MÉDICA 54151 VIH/SIDA 53790 MEDICINA CLÍNICA HOSPITALARIA 53754 POLÍTICA SANITARIA 2322 DERECHO SANITARIO 48689 VACUNAS 8158 Zite, Nikki B. 54570 Brown, Miriam 54571 Osmundson, Sarah S. 54572 Sharma, Deva 54573 22717 22684 Massachusetts NEJM Group NEJM016 The New England Journal of Medicine ESSALUD 0028-4793 ARTICULOS 2026-08-31 sqb 22929 22929