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2020-03-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Hospitals across the America could enact do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients against family wishes as the harsh reality of the pandemic hits
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Sorry, DailyMail Shitshow-mongers. This one won't get legs. "Medical ethicists" lost all credibility a long time ago.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-27 00:04||   2020-03-27 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a good way for the Doc's family to wind up in the ER full of bullet holes. People take you killing their relatives kinda personal.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-03-27 00:12||   2020-03-27 00:12|| Front Page Top

#3 How fortunate that a variety of clever boffins of various sorts have come up with a variety of ways to stretch a fixed number of ventilators over double or more patients (see here), while waiting for more machines to be shipped in from various assembly lines that not long ago were mostly making things entirely unlike ventilators.

And, as always, could is not at all the same as will. After all, I could wake up in the morning with the body I had on my wedding day, and Fred could suddenly get back all his hair, but these things are not at all likely.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-27 00:54||   2020-03-27 00:54|| Front Page Top

#4 But if they were, I'd fix you breakfast!
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-27 00:58||   2020-03-27 00:58|| Front Page Top

#5 <3
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-27 06:09||   2020-03-27 06:09|| Front Page Top

#6 But never accuse these dipshits of inciting a widespread panic.
Posted by Raj 2020-03-27 06:22||   2020-03-27 06:22|| Front Page Top

#7 On the battlefield, medical professionals must make tough decisions very quickly. Those most likely to survive are treated first for good reason.

If you spend all of your time and precious resources on the dying, those awaiting treatment will only get worse very soon join them.

A numbers game, yes! You must attempt to save as many as possible.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-27 06:44||   2020-03-27 06:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Hospitals across the America could enact do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients

In that class to not resuscitate

1. Any member of the media
2. Any politician
3. Any well known celebrity
4. (feel free to add here)

Excluded

1. First responders and Frontline medical personnel (for the encouragement of others)
2. (feel free to add here)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-27 07:57||   2020-03-27 07:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting this is being considered while also resisting the notion of fast tracking the malaria drug as cure for Covid-19. Really seems inconsistent.
Posted by Airandee 2020-03-27 08:01||   2020-03-27 08:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Caution: Anthrax and anti-malarial drugs issued by the military can cause addiction to the Rantburg.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-27 08:03||   2020-03-27 08:03|| Front Page Top

#11 A doctor on cable news last night said they're nowhere near the point any reasonable medical professional would even be discussing this idea. I'm guessing a journalist asked someone a question and responded with the off-the cuff answer to create a story out of nothing.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-03-27 09:03||   2020-03-27 09:03|| Front Page Top

#12 All of a piece with assuring abortions are "safe and legal" thru the 4,992nd week.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-27 09:36||   2020-03-27 09:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Sounds like a good way for the Doc's family to wind up in the ER full of bullet holes. People take you killing their relatives kinda personal.

I doubt it will be that dramatic. They'll just be killed in a mugging gone wrong some random day in the future.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-03-27 14:39||   2020-03-27 14:39|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 Sounds like a good way for the Doc's family to wind up in the ER full of bullet holes. People take you killing their relatives kinda personal.

Actually a more likely scenario than a Millenial "lick the toilet" challenge... Oh wait.
Posted by Capsu78 2020-03-27 18:36||   2020-03-27 18:36|| Front Page Top

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