Physicians Create List of Who Will Live and
Who Will Die in Pandemic / Disaster Scenario
by www.SixWise.com

In a move that sounds eerily like a disaster-based science fiction movie, doctors have created a list of who to let die should a pandemic or other widespread disaster hit.

The theory is that, should a mass disaster occur, medical care -- including everything from vaccines to respirators to doctors and nurses themselves -- could become scarce. So a task force of members from prestigious universities, medical groups, and government agencies (the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services) has compiled a list of people who would not be treated.

While some are calling the list an attempt to "play God," Dr. Asha Devereaux, a critical care specialist and lead writer of the task force report, called the guidelines a "blueprint for hospitals so that everybody will be thinking in the same way."