Docs list who would be allowed to die in a catastrophe
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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The
gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding whom to let die.
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In the event of a mass-casualty situation, medical resources would be have to be rationed.
Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated. They include the
very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims,
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