SOLVED651

Our hospital has an emergency situation: two patients are in the Emergency Department (ED) who need a ventilator due to severe cases of Covid-19. (We can’t refer patients elsewhere, because all regional hospitals are similarly over-loaded.) Unfortunately, there’s only one ventilator left, and we need to decide whom to give it to. The first patient to arrive in the ED was Paul. Paul is an otherwise healthy single 56-year-old man who works in the human resources department for a large retail company. If we give the ventilator to Paul, doctors anticipate he will make a full recovery and have an estimated life expectancy of 80 years. The second patient, Lin, arrived and was assessed about fifteen minutes after Paul. Lin is a 30-year-old nurse and parent of two children who works at a local nursing home. If we give Lin the ventilator, doctors expect she will recover and have a life expectancy of at least 80 years. People in the hospital are acting like this is a tough choice. But, there’s clearly only one fair way to make decisions like this. When medical resources are scarce, they should be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. For that reason, we should
SCIENCE
HEALTH SCIENCE
NURSING

******CLICK ORDER NOW BELOW AND OUR WRITERS WILL WRITE AN ANSWER TO THIS ASSIGNMENT OR ANY OTHER ASSIGNMENT, DISCUSSION, ESSAY, HOMEWORK OR QUESTION YOU MAY HAVE. OUR PAPERS ARE PLAGIARISM FREE*******."