thinning medication after he suffered a minor stroke on Dec. 18 caused by a blood clot. The drug prevents clots but can cause haemorrhaging. But Hadassah hospital brushed aside criticism of the way it treated Sharon after December's stroke, and said there was no need for a formal inquiry. "We have nothing to be ashamed of," the deputy director of Hadassah, Shmuel Shapira, told Israel's Channel Two television on Saturday. "Why would we need a formal inquiry?" He added: "If the next patient comes, a twin of the prime minister, ... it is safe to assume we would act in the same way as we did. "Medicine is not an exact science. There are a lot of judgment calls."
