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Originally Posted by Excaliber
I've read a couple of articles on about Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's thoughts on the subject, interesting stuff. As a bioethicist this is right up his alley as a "thought experiment" a discussion among colleagues of a "what if" scenario. Not generally available to the public because of the potential for hysteria with such discussions. Like a "theoritcal chemist", who does not actually do any lab work, he proposes ideas, theories, what if scenarios. Sometimes quite outlandish ones.
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Reminds me of a politician.
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Originally Posted by Excaliber
Such "triage" decisions have to be made in Emergency rooms on a daily basis. Who gets immediate care? Who has to wait? Who is going to die "anyway" and you do nothing? Very tough to discuss these issues, but they have to be dealt with.
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The people who get immediate care are the one's most likely to die. In all the years of medicine, working in ER's, my sister and husband are ER doc's, I've only known one person ever left to die, it was Mary Jo Kopechne. I guess Ted made that triage decision.