Should Age be Used To Ration Scarce Resources? Podcast with Tim Farrell and Doug White

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · May 12, 2020 · 39m

We are rationing in the US. We may not be explicitly rationing, as we're going to discuss on this podcast, but we are rationing - in the way we allocate fewer tests and less PPE to nursing homes compared to hospitals, in the way we allow hospitals and states to "fend for themselves" resulting in those hospitals/states with better connections and more resources having more PPE and testing availability. And in some parts of the world, ICU and ventilator resources are scare, and they are rationing by age. We talked on our last podcast about decisions Italy made to ration by age, and on this…