[ccmay]

So you’re a doctor, and you have 3 doses of Tamiflu left in your medicine cabinet, and the following 4 patients:

- A comatose 87-year-old with multi-organ failure, who in all likelihood will die within the next week no matter what you do
-A previously healthy 23-year-old mother of 3 small children
-A previously healthy 35-year-old fireman and father of two
-A previously healthy 9-year-old boy.

Who gets the Tamiflu? If you choose the obvious answer, congratulations, you just performed an act of triage, you Godless liberal.

If you’d give the medicine to the 87-year-old, I’d like for you to explain your reasoning, and I’d like for you not to be in charge of anything more complicated than a hot dog cart during a real pandemic.

[Marie]

That is NOT what they're saying! They're not saying, "if you're down to X you do Y". They're saying, "In case of disease, don't worry about anyone with a disability, diabetes or the elderly."

Don't you see? They're taking it to a whole new level. If there's a pandemic, automatically stop treating X.

This is NOT OK. Why can't you people see that we're not dealing with rational, humane people? They're saying, if there is and emergency AND if you have a "normal adult" with a 20% chance of survival and a child with Down's Syndrome with a 75% if survival, you are to treat the "normal" person. Both may die, but they don't care.

They don't want the Down's Syndrome child to live.

In normal triage situations, the Down's child would get the treatment, because he wouldn't be devalued as a human being. Triage just looks at the odds of surviving a certain situation, not the person surviving it. Triage doesn't give a crap is the person who survives is good for the gene pool, or the state. It only cares who will survive the crisis in question.

This mandate changes all that. Now doctors are supposed to look at the value of the human being.

This is a SIN.

[cajungirl]

Make your case harder.

You have one or two doses of tamiflu

[Spartan79]

Change your first line to:

- A comatose 87-year-old with multi-organ failure, who in all likelihood will die within the next week no matter what you do WHO IS A MAJOR DONOR TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS.

Under Obamacare will this change the result? If you think it won’t you’re hopelessly naive.

[jurroppi1]

One Tami flu over the cuckoo’s nest?