"To a patient whose lungs are temporarily compromised, short-term ventilator support is often the difference between life and death. Unfortunately, if a future pandemic leaves millions of Americans temporarily unable to breath -- vastly exceeding the number of mechanical ventilation machines or the trained staff needed to operate them -- our hospitals will be forced to decide which patients to help breathe and which to let die."
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Jacob M. Appel, physician, The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing, Huffington Post, June 27, 2009.
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