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some people live, some people die


In a FREE society, there'd not be such rules that prohibit this type of age discrimination.


And this one of those joys of O-Care, where it's up to Sebelius to decide who lived or died, based on HER signature. She, like the Emperors of old , gave the crowd a 'thumbs down' , and sentenced this girl to death.

Were her parents TEA party supporters ? I wonder.

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Can you really be as ignorant as you make out?

In your free society with no age restrictions, would adult lungs be shoved into a baby?

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Why not let DOCTORS decide, instead of bureaucrats ? Here, the doctors were of the opinion that such a transplant could work.

Your absurd comment of adult lungs being 'shoved into a baby' deserves no response.

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Triage (/'tri????/ (UK English) or /tri?'???/ (US English)) is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately. The term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to separate, sift or select.[1] Triage may result in determining the order and priority of emergency treatment, the order and priority of emergency transport, or the transport destination for the patient.

Triage may also be used for patients arriving at the emergency department, or telephoning medical advice systems,[2] among others. This article deals with the concept of triage as it occurs in medical emergencies, including the prehospital setting, disasters, and emergency room treatment.

The term Triage may have originated during the Napoleonic Wars from the work of Dominique Jean Larrey. The term was used further during World War I by French doctors treating the battlefield wounded at the aid stations behind the front. Those responsible for the removal of the wounded from a battlefield or their care afterwards would divide the victims into three categories:[3][4]

Those who are likely to live, regardless of what care they receive;
Those who are likely to die, regardless of what care they receive;
Those for whom immediate care might make a positive difference in outcome.

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Why not let DOCTORS decide, instead of bureaucrats ? Here, the doctors were of the opinion that such a transplant could work.

Your absurd comment of adult lungs being 'shoved into a baby' deserves no response.

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YOU were the one who raised the issue of age, which you called discrimination. To you using age as a criteria for transplants amounts to discrimination, despite the fact that adult lungs and pediatric lungs are not the same. That's medical information. So according to your own arguments, a baby should be able to receive an adult lung, even though medically that would be catastrophic.

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