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Doctors and medical personnel don't have unlimited amounts of specialized equipment, facilities, and personnel. They have to be able to perform triage and make
by hotsauceror 5y ago
Doctors and medical personnel don't have unlimited amounts of specialized equipment, facilities, and personnel. They have to be able to perform triage and make decisions about how best to allocate those resources. Medical personnel at mass casualty events, for example, may 'Black Tag' [0] people whose injuries are so severe that they will not survive, and it would be a misuse of resources to provide more than cursory pain management for them. And those people are arguably less 'at fault' than those who chose not to get vaccinated against a pandemic.
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