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03/03/2008: "Facing the need for human triage"

Older, sicker patients could be allowed to die in order to save the lives of patients more likely to survive a massive disaster, bioterror attack or influenza pandemic in California.

It's not how nurses and doctors are accustomed to doing things, nor how Californians expect to be treated. But it is part of a sweeping statewide plan being praised for its breadth, even as it rankles providers who will have to carry it out.

The new "surge capacity guidelines" released by the state Department of Public Health, depict a post-disaster health care environment that looks and feels nothing like the system most Californians depend on.

[ With seven billion humans on earth, most of them brick-stupid and unable to care for themselves, we see how hollow "equality" really is. ]

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/753359.html