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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Authors: Eyal, Nir (Author) ; Williams, Bridget (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: 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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