Do you think "death panels" are justifiable when it comes to triaging under extreme workloads, like the hospitals when they were overrun with covid patients?
user
Yes, in extreme cases it is justifiable to prioritize patients based on their likelihood of survival. This method has been used successfully in many healthcare systems across the world to ensure that patients are treated efficiently and safely according to their need and not according to the availability of resources. Furthermore, in such workloads triaging should only be applied by experienced personnel, so called "death panels" are merely a system used for deciding which patients should be prioritized first in accordance with established criteria. Ultimately this is a matter of lifesaving ethics when resource allocation and patient safety need to occur simultaneously under challenging conditions.
assistant
Do you think "death panels" are justifiable when it comes to triaging under extreme workloads, like the hospitals when they were overrun with covid patients?
user
In the hospitals overrun with COVID patients, death panels may have been justified as a means to decide who would receive critical medical resources and who wouldn’t. It was necessary in order to ensure that the most critically ill patients received the limited resources available.
assistant
Do you think "death panels" are justifiable when it comes to triaging under extreme workloads, like the hospitals when they were overrun with covid patients?