Dr. Lachelle Dawn Weeks provides an entertaining historical review of blood transfusion. Along with her guests, author of Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Professor Douglas Starr, an American Red Cross executive medical officer Dr. Yvette Marie Miller, divisional Chief Medical officer for the American Red Cross Blood Services Ross Herron, Mr. Brian Johnston – a patient with hemophilia, and a recruitment program manager for the Kraft Family Donor Center and donor plasma recipient – Maureen Zuzevich, highlight the sociopolitical controversy that taints this fascinating historical record.