David Bellamy

As an assistant to a Harvard Medical School's Professor Carl Walter, Bellamy helped with a number of medical inventions. But he, with Dr. Walter, made perhaps their biggest contribution when they came up with plastic containers for blood -- blood bags. They innovation not only helped with storage and sterility of blood and other products, but made blood collection and the delivery of other fluids easier and virtually break proof. Bellamy died August 29 from brain cancer. He was 74. From This is True for 27 August 2000 Suggestions for further reading: Modern Blood Banking And Transfusion Practices by Denise M. Harmening Amazon Price: $66.09 Customer Review: This book is practical and concise. It is easy to understand and has most of the pertinent topics in blood banking and transfusion medicine.   Thanks for the Memories: A Novel by Cecelia Ahern Amazon Price: $10.19 Customer Review: I expected much more from this book. The humor was there, all in the form of one character. Other than that, a total silly waste of time.   Basic & Applied Concepts of Immunohematology by Kathy D. Blaney MS BB(ASCP)SBB, Paula R. Howard MS MT(ASCP)SBB Amazon Price: $52.44 Customer Review: Excellent textbook for learning blood bank. The charts and tables throughout the book are very useful for organizing the information being presented in a very critical area of the laboratory. The text is written very clear; made learning blood bank w...   Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine (Simon, Rossi's Principles of Tran... Amazon Price: $239.96   Transfusion Medicine Self-Assessment and Review, 2nd edition by Douglas Blackall, MD, Priscilla I. Figueroa, Jeffrey L. Winters Amazon Price: $110.00   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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