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Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers

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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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Just what in the name of Mein Kampf is this? by Anti Vigilante on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 8:29:41 AM