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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
whose ethics (or under what ethical system)? IF they don't get to see a doctor, then the doctor's ethics aren't implicated.
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The system's ethics. Hell, we have a problem terminating whatshername Shivo's (very expensive) care in Florida because someone thinks she's benefiting from it.
I don't have a problem with healthcare rationing per se (I was and continue to be in love with the Oregon model that Bush I slapped down as barbaric), but I do have a problem with cutting people off because of class or age, and no one has been able to show how it's possible to cut people off.
When most end-of-life treatment starts, the caregivers don't know it's the end of that patient's life, and a hell of a lot of patients in the same situation pull through. The physicians', nurses' and other allied health professionals' ethics get involved with withdrawing that care.
