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When must you know your blood type?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

It's really almost never vital that you know your blood type.

It's somewhat more likely to be important that your doctors know your blood type, but it's standard procedure for them to test it even if you tell them what it is, just because you might be wrong.

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