Question: My son is 50 years old. He has had surgical interventions due to accident that left him with a remnant rather than a stomach. He has very little intestine. Due to this he is chronically anemic. His hemoglobin level has been under 9 for more than a year. He is not a cardiac surgery patient. nor does he have cancer or leukemia. Four months ago his hemoglobin was 7.2; 2 weeks later it was 5.9 One of his doctors wanted to give him regular transfusions. Or at least a transfusion. The other doctors voted no. One month later his hemoglobin was still 5.9. Again he was refused transfusion. He does not have aids, cancer, leukemia etc. This week his hemoglobin is 6.2 because we doubled up on the daily vitamin plus iron. He collapsed this afternoon and is sleeping because the doctors still refuse to think he needs intervention with iron bolus or transfusion. I am sure there must be some long term perhaps fatal damage going on in his body because of the long term untreated extremely low hemoglobin blood level. How can we get his doctors to treat him and give him a transfusion?