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Posted Tue May 6 2008: from Chicago Tribune:
Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1210088514
"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 who to let die. 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, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia."
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