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Interesting article on Yahoo Answers . Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Mon May 5, 12:14 AM ET Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia. The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals "so that everybody will be thinking in the same ...

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Welcome to All Scrubbed Up's 3rd guest blogger... Lenshopper.com ! Enjoy their fine fare of humorous anecdotes... Amazing Emergency Room Stories Every day hundreds of thousands of people all over the world are rushed to different hospitals emergency rooms. All of them with real injuries and physical complaints but with different reasons as to why they had to be hospitalized. Here are some funny emergency room stories. Whether or not they’re true events is up to you to decide but stranger things have happened. Or? Tricky Contacts On a regular Tuesday evening a local emergency room in Pennsylvania gets a visit by a man that can’t remove his contact lenses . Under the obvious influence of alcohol the man complains of his head aching and abnormal pains in his eyes. Explaining to the nurse that he has been trying to remove his without any luck. The contacts will only come out halfway before popping back in. The nurse then uses a suction pump to get the lenses out but with no result. W...

Okay, okay - so I'm "adapting" another thing from Medical Jokes on Geocities ... hope they don't mind, but this was way too good to pass up. The Surgeon... Leaps tall buildings in a single bound Is more productive than a train Is faster than a speeding bullet Walks on water Talks with God The Resident... Leaps short buildings in a single bound Is more powerful than a switch engine Is faster than a speeding BB gun Walks on water if the sea is calm Talks with God if special request is approved The GP... Leaps short buildings with a running start and favourable winds Is almost as powerful as a switch engine Can fire a speeding bullet Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool Is occasionally addressed by God The MO (Medical Officer)... Barely clears a picket fence Loses tug-of-war with a train Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury Swims well Talks with animals The Intern... Makes high skid marks on a wall when trying to leap buildings Is run over by a ...