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Subject: Does this make sense?

There just aren't enough moments in the day to rectify the wrongs of the past.

Poll: Does this make sense?  [closed]
Yes:  89%
(33 Votes)
No:  8%
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Not Sure:  3%
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Total Votes: 37

Someone who is 80 years old broke their ankle in their home and went to the hospital to receive treatment, though at this time, the hospital this person went to is backlogged and a person who was just recently in a car accident needs immediate surgery.

If the person whose ankle was broken does not get treatment, the worst case is that this person will be confined to a bed for their remaining years. On the other hand, if they do get surgery, the person in the accident will die that night.

Does it make sense to you that the younger person should get surgery before the other?

  • 12.04.2012 7:46 PM PDT
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They call me graland.

Life-threatening injuries take precedence.

  • 12.04.2012 7:47 PM PDT

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Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

  • 12.04.2012 7:47 PM PDT

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Thats what happens when other people have to foot the bill for others.

  • 12.04.2012 7:47 PM PDT

Age shouldn't matter, severity of the injury should.

  • 12.04.2012 7:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Garland
Life-threatening injuries take precedence.

  • 12.04.2012 7:48 PM PDT

...I doubt there would be a place that doesn't have enough people to help both.

  • 12.04.2012 7:48 PM PDT

Bones of my enemies.

Depends. If the car accident guy is a communist, let him die.

  • 12.04.2012 7:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mind Reaper 771
Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

  • 12.04.2012 7:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Garland
Life-threatening injuries take precedence.

  • 12.04.2012 7:50 PM PDT

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You know what's even worse?

When the boy you like has a girlfriend.
#gheyworldproblems

OP, do you even triage?

  • 12.04.2012 7:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: SlenderTheMan

Posted by: Mind Reaper 771
Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

  • 12.04.2012 7:51 PM PDT

I make a living of selling my body, and I don't mean sex.

Well it is a worst case scenario if he can't walk.

I'd go with saving the guy's life.

  • 12.04.2012 7:51 PM PDT

Posted by: IslocStarkiller

Posted by: SlenderTheMan

Posted by: Mind Reaper 771
Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

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Posted by: DAS B00T x2
OP, do you even triage?

  • 12.04.2012 7:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: ArchNinja64
Thats what happens when other people have to foot the bill for others.

Just curious but what does that have to do with this?

Here, the most severe injury goes first. So the person at risk of dying would be helped first, always.

  • 12.04.2012 7:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: AgileNaruto001

Does it make sense to you that the younger person should get surgery before the other?
You never gave the age of the person in the accident. Cookie please.

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Yes, life saving surgery coming first does make sense, and is pretty much standard practice in any hospital. Besides, they'd probably just get an ambulance to transfer the 80 year old to another hospital anyways.

  • 12.04.2012 7:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: Marinade
Posted by: ArchNinja64
Thats what happens when other people have to foot the bill for others.

Just curious but what does that have to do with this?

Here, the most severe injury goes first. So the person at risk of dying would be helped first, always.


Just saying that the way the healthcare system is set up now this sort of "backlog" can happen when resources or money are limited, due to either fraud or people taking advantage of the system. You might know this under the term of "rationing healthcare".

  • 12.04.2012 7:56 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.

OP did you make a typo? That's not a question. The younger guy is both in more serious condition and younger. If it would be the young man had a broken ankle, and the old man was in the accident it would be a more apt question for your later statement. As now you have to pick, younger guy who could be debilitated for life, or old man who could die.

  • 12.04.2012 7:59 PM PDT

There just aren't enough moments in the day to rectify the wrongs of the past.


Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: IslocStarkiller

Posted by: SlenderTheMan

Posted by: Mind Reaper 771
Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

It wasnt to my father, he thought the old person should be put first.

  • 12.04.2012 7:59 PM PDT

Though the morrow may be barren of promises, nothing shall forstall my return.

Guaranteed death vs possible paralysis, I'm going to say give it to the younger person.

Also, tip to OP. Very nice coup but I would suggest changing up text colour because the white is a little hard to read at some points against the light background.

[Edited on 12.04.2012 8:03 PM PST]

  • 12.04.2012 8:02 PM PDT

There just aren't enough moments in the day to rectify the wrongs of the past.


Posted by: Black Eagle X99
OP did you make a typo? That's not a question. The younger guy is both in more serious condition and younger. If it would be the young man had a broken ankle, and the old man was in the accident it would be a more apt question for your later statement. As now you have to pick, younger guy who could be debilitated for life, or old man who could die.

The question is that under these circumstances, do you believe that the younger person who was in a car accident should get treatment before the older person, or that the older person should get it first? If the younger person gets helped first, he/she will live and the older person will be unable to walk easily for the rest of their life. If the older person gets helped, the younger person will die, that is the question simplified.

  • 12.04.2012 8:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: AgileNaruto001

Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: IslocStarkiller

Posted by: SlenderTheMan

Posted by: Mind Reaper 771
Death verses not being able to walk.

I would think that the choice would be clear.

It wasnt to my father, he thought the old person should be put first.
Was he the doctor or the one needing the surgery?

  • 12.04.2012 8:06 PM PDT
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A few more years of "easier" walking or saving a potential many more decades of life.

Hard choice. I'm going in favor of the car accident victim. (It would have been much more of a conundrum if it was the old person in the accident and the young one with the ankle issue).

  • 12.04.2012 8:07 PM PDT

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