Blood villains and heroes by Rose George

Rose George is an author and journalist living in the UK. She has written four books: her last was Nine Pints: A journey through the money, medicine and mysteries of blood. Her third book, Ninety Percent of Everything, won the Maritime Foundation Mountbatten Literary Prize in 2013. She writes journalism - features, longreads, opinion pieces and book reviews - for The Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, New York Times and many other publications.
Rose has a Congratulatory First Class honours from Somerville College, University of Oxford, and an MA in politics from the University of Pennsylvania. She received both a Thouron Award and a Fulbright scholarship.
Rose’s website is www.rosegeorge.com

[@stevenhawk1346]

Thank you Rose. My favorite part was the heroism of the London van drivers carting around precious and needed blood to hospitals. Best wishes on your personal blood battle. Five star extraordinary lecture! 😀

[@MagnaMater2]

Thank you!
Noo, those poor leeches! ;( - is there any petiton, to return the fed ones to a... somewhat 'natural' surrounding - like artificial hospital ponds with a 'beware pensioned leeches'- sign. ( I start to understand, how an army of leeches ended up in an alpine pond in the seventies, perhaps some hiking nurse had mercy and put them somewhere nobody - but me - would step in.)