> Since when are doctors anotinting themselves w/the divine right of kings to decide when and how you die?
It's called "triage."
What's going on here is unfortunate but probably inevitable. Med tech has gotten to where *anybody* can be kept alive indefinitely... with enough money. This effectively devalues human life. I'm unsurprised that some doctors have ceased to care.
No.
"Triage is a system used by medical or emergency personnel to ration limited medical resources when the number of injured needing care exceeds the resources available to perform care so as to treat the greatest number of patients possible."
What these doctors are doing is deliberately withholding medicine to hasten death.
I agree. And I find it suspicious that the writer doesn't give any other information about the 92 year old. Had she been able to enjoy life up until the infection set in, so that one might reasonably expect she would continue to enjoy more life if the infection was fended off? Or was she in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, recognizing no one, and lying in a bed 24/7, incontinent and unable to feed herself? Big difference IMO.
You say "tomâto." I say "tomäto." You say "triage." I say "murder."
Triage does not involve killing patients, and it doesn't involve refusing to treat patients that can and should be treated. It does not involve separating patients based on your own unrelated biases against certain patients who are the wrong race, gender, religion, eye color, or disability.