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Since when do "triage doctors" attempt diagnosis, or have the expectation of doing so? They're just trying to figure out who needs to see the actual doctor firs

• ButlerianJihad 6mo ago
  Yeah, triage is fundamentally a process of arranging patients in a priority queue, so that the most critical cases can be addressed in minutes, and the other resources are assigned to people who aren’t immediately dying or going into shock. Triage in disaster/crisis response can even be about figuring out which patients are already dead, or cannot be helped before dying, so you mark them or assign them with a toe-tag, and focus your resources on preventing that number from increasing.