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Respirators, our rights, right and wrong: Medical ethics in an age of coronavirus

Respirators, our rights, right and wrong: Medical ethics in an age of coronavirus 1

Third, don’t discriminate against patients by rationing on the basis of age, social worth or disability. A crisis can sometimes provoke cruelly cold rationality, thinking merely about maximizing the total “quality-adjusted life years” saved. We must remember that all patients are of equal dignity and equally worthy of our efforts to help them. As physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, and, above all, as human beings, we need to devote ourselves to the care of all sick and injured persons, regardless of their personal characteristics or our perceptions of them.

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