Messed up how? -- Michael Dinowitz
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:312970 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
