When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health
Sometimes, offering someone beneficial care is likely to thwart the similar or more serious medical needs of more people. For example, when acute shortage is strongly predicted to persist, providing the long period on scarce intensive care that a certain COVID-19 patient needs is sometimes projected...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Bioethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 37, Issue: 9, Pages: 846-853 |
IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
Further subjects: | B
healthcare rationing
B physician obligations B limitation of care |
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