Ethical Dilemmas in Critical Care Triage
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What choice could hospital staff in New York, Paris, and London face in the coming weeks?

  • Deciding between treating COVID-19 patients and those with other diseases (correct)
  • Choosing between two critically ill patients
  • Deciding whether to put a dollar figure on human life
  • Determining how long extreme social distancing should persist

    • What is one of the agonizing decisions that medics have to make during triage?

  • Deciding how much unemployment and bankruptcy is a price worth paying
  • Determining how long extreme social distancing should persist
  • Deciding whether to put a dollar figure on human life
  • Deciding who will be treated and who must go without (correct)

    • What choice did the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, advocate for?

  • Deciding between treating COVID-19 patients and those with other diseases
  • Putting a dollar figure on human life (correct)
  • Determining how long extreme social distancing should persist
  • Choosing between two critically ill patients

    • What is one of the questions raised in the text regarding the COVID-19 pandemic?

    <p>Determining how long extreme social distancing should persist</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is described as a miserable choice in the text?

    <p>Deciding between treating COVID-19 patients and those with other diseases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the choice that hospital staff in New York, Paris, and London could face in the coming weeks?

    <p>Having to decide which patients will be treated and which will not, who might live and who will probably die due to limited resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the questions raised in the text regarding the COVID-19 pandemic?

    <p>Should medical resources go to COVID-19 patients or those suffering from other diseases?</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the price worth paying according to the text?

    <p>Some unemployment and bankruptcy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, declare about putting a dollar figure on human life?

    <p>We're not going to put a dollar figure on human life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What choice was the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, advocating for?

    <p>A choice that does not put a dollar figure on human life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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