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- Frank Roels (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Hospital specialists who took care of the COVID-19 patients, confess in the newspaper their fear for a possible shortage of beds that led them to exclude patients from curing therapy. The nursing staff also suffered from these painful choices. I argue that fear for a non-existing shortage is not acceptable as a decision basis. Saving the life of every patient is obligatory in medical deontology as well as under criminial law (except if the victim made a different will). In addition, each patient was selected on statistical basis, i.e. his/her risk factors. This equalizes the prognosis of an individual to the statistical mean of a population; this is scientifically incorrect, and morally and legally unacceptable.
- Keywords
- covid-19, university hospitals, shortage, risk factors, selection
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8664353
- MLA
- Roels, Frank. “Schrik Als Leidraad.” Humanistischverbond.Be/Blog, no. 03/06/2020, Humanistisch Verbond, 2020.
- APA
- Roels, F. (2020). Schrik als leidraad. Antwerpen: Humanistisch Verbond.
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- Roels, Frank. 2020. “Schrik Als Leidraad.” Humanistischverbond.Be/Blog. Antwerpen: Humanistisch Verbond.
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- Roels, Frank. 2020. “Schrik Als Leidraad.” Humanistischverbond.Be/Blog. Antwerpen: Humanistisch Verbond.
- Vancouver
- 1.Roels F. Schrik als leidraad. Humanistischverbond.be/blog. Antwerpen: Humanistisch Verbond; 2020.
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- [1]F. Roels, “Schrik als leidraad,” Humanistischverbond.be/blog, no. 03/06/2020. Humanistisch Verbond, Antwerpen, 2020.
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