Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid
by 3np on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:46AM
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IANAD and don't have a great source for this, but I've both heard and read about some variety of "professional code" or "best practices" where MDs are expected to leave their personal convictions aside when deciding and prioritizing who gets what care.
I may personally agree with the exact situation you describe, but relying on "common sense" breaks fast at scale. If the doctor(s) making the call are devout adherents of some religious sect, would you prefer that they prioritize the drunken driver above the pregnant woman who needs an abortion of the child that was conceived out of bedlock?
Or denying care to the heroin addict ODing?
IMO, completely removing moral judgment from the medical evaluation process is a net positive.
This doesn't have to mean "first come, first serve", and I assume it doesn't in most places.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid
by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:46AM
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I agree, so long as we’re not expecting doctors to do triage, which I believe they generally don’t. Triage is generally don’t by specially trained nurses, as I understand it.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid
by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:32PM
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I meant “generally done by”
I mean, you don't want anyone left behind. But if you're forced to leave someone behind, the question becomes "who?". If you have one emergency bed and in comes a drunk driver from an accident, shortly followed by the pregnant woman he ran over, I'm not a big fan of "first come, first served".
If and when doctors are forced into heinous choices, I'd think such considerations should play a role - for society allocating scarce resources, at the very least.