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Yeah the 4000 matresses is very discouraging...if the numbers are really THAT much worse than what they are claiming then the recent Army briefings begins to make sense...

I'm going to have to ask a rather disturbing question;

At what point in an epidemic/pandemic does TRUE Morality have to switch focus from Compassion to Triage???

By 'whatever means necessary'??? :-(

1,660 posted on 05/27/2005 9:22:47 PM PDT by FYREDEUS (FYREDEUS)

1,662 posted on 05/27/2005 9:27:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)

At what point in an epidemic/pandemic does TRUE Morality have to switch focus from Compassion to Triage???

Actually, that question makes more sense in a developed nation rather than in Angola. In a developed nation--if it were in the US, triage is a given. That's standard practice in ERs.

Triage means separating the patients into three groups: Those that will survive whether or not they get treatment, those that will survive only if they get treatment, and those that not survive even if they get treatment. Obviously, in medical emergencies, the middle group gets medical attention, and ONLY the middle group.

Compassion is something that should ALWAYS be an a priori given, no matter which group the patient falls into.

1,663 posted on 05/27/2005 9:32:38 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)

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