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Johns Hopkins Doctor And Disaster Expert Says Resource Problems In Haiti Required Difficult Ethical Decision-Making

Submitted by MedicalReplies on Friday, 12 March 2010No Comment

In an essay published in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Johns Hopkins emergency physician outlines how he and other physicians who worked in Haiti after the earthquake had to make emotionally difficult ethical decisions daily in the face of a crushing wave of patients and inadequate medical resources. Thomas D. Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H…

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Johns Hopkins Doctor And Disaster Expert Says Resource Problems In Haiti Required Difficult Ethical Decision-Making

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