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So you give the people who need resources to live instead of wasting them on those who will live without them.

• dreamcompiler 3y ago
  ...or die even with them. That's the less pleasant half of triage: Don't waste resources on people who are going to die regardless of treatment.
  • mcswell 3y ago
    Yeap. And that's of course why it's called triage, instead of diage (or would it be biage?). People are divided into three groups: those who will get well without help, those who will die even with help, and those who will die unless they get help.
    • kryogen1c 3y ago
      I'm not sure where you heard this, but triage does not use the prefix tri- meaning three. Triage is a concept that is instantiated differently per locale and is not a universal 3 bucket system.