to totally hijack the threat, Mike the web interface for CF talk is messed up.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just as a follow up, the ethical dilemmas mentioned in the articles > title were ones of triage and patient priorities. > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I found this fascinating >> >> http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp1001693?query=TOC >> >> *The Israeli Field Hospital in Haiti Ethical Dilemmas in Early Disaster >> Response >> *Within 48 hours after the massive earthquake that struck >> Port-au-Prince, Haiti, >> on January 12, the government of Israel dispatched a military task force >> consisting of 230 people: 109 support and rescue personnel from the Israel >> Defense Forces (IDF) Home Front Command and 121 medical personnel from the >> IDF Medical Corps Field Hospital. The force's primary mission was to >> establish a field hospital in Haiti. >> >> We landed in Port-au-Prince 15 hours after leaving Tel Aviv and began to >> deploy immediately. The first patients arrived at our gates and were >> admitted even before the hospital was fully built, within 8 hours after our >> equipment arrived. In its 10 days of operation, the field hospital treated >> more than 1100 patients. >> >> Our mission was to extend lifesaving medical help to as many people as >> possible. The need to manage limited resources that fell far short of the >> demands continuously presented us with complex ethical issues. Every >> mass-casualty event raises ethical issues concerning the priorities of >> treatment, but the Haiti disaster was exceptional in several ways. Haiti is >> a poor country with minimal civil facilities, and the earthquake's >> destruction of infrastructure left millions of people homeless and hundreds >> of >> thousands in need of medical assistance. When we arrived, there was no >> functioning authority coordinating the distribution of the available medical >> resources. We were faced with the challenge of establishing an ethical and >> practical system of medical priorities in a setting of chaos. >> ... >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312967 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
