Posted on 01/08/2021 12:47:25 PM PST by BenLurkin
The crisis designation would empower the newly named triage officers — usually critical care and emergency room doctors — to decide which patients at county hospitals would get access to resources such as ventilators, respiratory therapists and critical care nurses when they become too scarce to be provided to every patient.
Hospitals outside the county system will have to decide on their own whether to invoke similar urgency measures, though state officials told them last week that they should have triage plans ready.
Inside many overflowing Southern California hospitals, a form of undeclared rationing appears already to be taking place. Ambulances carrying COVID patients have been diverted from overtaxed medical centers. Critically ill patients sometimes wait days to get intensive care beds.
California Department of Public Health and some hospital systems recommend reliance on clinical scoring systems that evaluate patients’ organ functions, generating numerical scores meant to indicate an individual’s survival chances.
County health leaders...have directed triage officers to use a broader “principle-based approach” that seeks to shift care away from patients judged to be terminal to patients judged to have the best chance of survival.
The county triage document acknowledged that it did not provide a concise set of instructions for triage officers that would cover “every possible circumstance that might arise in the context of an overwhelming surge of demand.”
The county’s policy is most clear on what it does not allow: discrimination against individuals based on their identity. The guidelines note that it is unethical and illegal to deny care to individuals based on their religion, race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status or disability.
The triage officers are supposed to focus, instead, on each individual’s chance of surviving COVID-19 or other ailments.
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Death Panels 2021.
Palin’s Death Czars.
How is this possible? They have had 9 months and $$$ Billions to prepare for this. The money was stolen.
bttt
They call it “social equity.” White people will be left to die.
So prioritizing is bad all of a sudden?
What would you expect them to do, not treat the sickest people first?
they had had 9 months to prepare for this ..
sabotage and cover up is their game.
A black man with a paper cut probably will take priority over a white person with COVID.
Just the flu bro.
The used to be called Death Panels.
No worries, China will lend aid.
Let me guess racial quotas
Then there's the possibility of a ship.
“Doctor, the patient is listed online as a registered republican voter”
Doctor: ‘NEXT!’
Already happened
1. Illegal aliens
2. Other foreign nationals
3. Blacks
4. Other minorities
5. Democrats
6. American citizens
7. American veterans
In short, if you have to be admitted to an LA hospital and you can't fake being black, you're next best chance is to tell them you're gay or lesbians AND you're a transgender 'it' on top of that...
They’ll be checking the FEC database.
County health leaders...have directed triage officers to use a broader “principle-based approach” that seeks to shift care away from patients judged to be terminal to patients judged to have the best chance of survival.
An evil twist on the bioethics discussions I used to have with the providers at Wilford Hall Medical Center when I was the Medical Law Consultant. This was generally the tiny minority viewpoint. Also why I advise my clients not to file their living wills in their medical records.
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