Rationing remains a touchy subject
Emergency Management Alert, May 29, 2007
It is difficult to imagine making the decision to take a critically ill patient off of a life-saving ventilator. It is even more difficult to imagine denying that patient a ventilator in the first place.
But as local, state, and federal government works with healthcare organizations to plan for large-scale disasters such as pandemic flu or a bioterrorist attack, the potential need for rationing-be it services, medicine, or even space-can't be ignored.
But, who will decide which patients receive critical care and who will not? The debate is both sensitive and, in some cases, secretive, reports the Quincy, MA-based Patriot Ledger.
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