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To: retMD

My point is that doctors and other medical staff often need to make choices about who to treat and when and how much. We’ve reached to point where many hospitals are in such chaos that many patients are dying from lack of timely care, medical errors, etc., while the staff is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. And when many of these people are essentially enemies of civilization, we need to be willing to recognize that they are NOT just as valuable as honest people who are sick or injured through no fault of their own. Resources are not unlimited, and choices have to be made. Remember the case where a murderer on death row got a heart transplant, while hundreds of fine upstanding citizens languished on the waiting list for a heart? Somebody else died because the decision was made to give that heart to a murderer. Sorry, but I don’t buy the argument that such choices are consistent with doctors’ commitment to “do no harm”.


86 posted on 05/20/2007 12:30:55 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

more BS .....


137 posted on 05/21/2007 6:31:48 AM PDT by restornu (Seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. "Mitt-? 08")
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