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- If there are not enough resources for everyone, who
- should have the resources first?
- A method of selection known to the military as
- 'triage' is used by medical officers. Triage may also be
- used when a natural catastophe (such as an earthquake)
- overwhelms medical resources.
- The selection principle groups the wounded into three
- groups:
- A: Those so seriously would that they cannot be saved
- or can be saved only by an unreasonable large effort
- B: Those who can survive with a reasonable amount of
- care but would die without it.
- C: The walking wounded whose threatment can be
- deferred to a later time.
- Under triage, group B would receive first attention.
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- SCARCITY MAY DEMAND UNCOMFORTABLE CHOICES
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