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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
"Triaging patients in this sort of situation is to ensure that those likeliest to survive get treated."

If they are most likely to survive, why waste scarce resources on them?

Those eliminated from scarce resources: Those most likely to survive; those mostly likely to die.

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31 posted on 04/26/2009 1:49:22 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: bruinbirdman
If they are most likely to survive, why waste scarce resources on them?

I was of course referring to those most likely to survive, IF TREATED.

38 posted on 04/26/2009 2:01:34 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: bruinbirdman

“If they are most likely to survive, why waste scarce resources on them?”

You have a good point there. We leave the responsible and intelligent to fend for themselves, why not let the healthier ones help themselves(q)


249 posted on 04/27/2009 1:30:14 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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