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In reply to the discussion: Were I in charge of a hospital, admission for Covid-19 treatment [View all]Towlie
(5,342 posts)61. You may be a nurse but you must have been absent from nursing school that day.
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Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments by the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatment.
It's way beyond credibility that the medical profession would ever endorse triage decisions based upon whether the doctor thinks the patient deserves to live.
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I made zero assertions relating to health officials acquring COVID 19 from their patients.
Ms. Toad
Nov 2020
#79
I agree as to COVID 19 - and I've been working since March to convince people to wear masks
Ms. Toad
Nov 2020
#93
Right. Should a hospital reject a car crash victim if the accident was their fault?
Towlie
Nov 2020
#7
Can doctors favor the heterosexuals? The people who go to their church? The members of their party?
Towlie
Nov 2020
#66
Those aren't behavior- based indicators of future ability/willing to care for scarce resources. N/t
Ms. Toad
Nov 2020
#68
While clearly this can't be done in the way you describe, and we treat many people who might be...
Silent3
Nov 2020
#29
JFC - do addicts or heart attack patients transmit deadly global pandemics to hospital staff?
malaise
Nov 2020
#38
I understand the sentiment. But there are a lot of people getting medical care for
highplainsdem
Nov 2020
#33