Medical dilemma
By ready2earn
@ready2earn (435)
Italy
January 28, 2007 5:17am CST
Ok, your a doctor in a hospital and for whatever reason you only have 3 pints of a certain blood type available.
Now, everybody is doing very well when all of a sudden a 25 year old tramp is brought into your A&E ward, at the same time the 55 year old prime minister of your country is also brought in.
Both need (amazingly) 3 pints of this blood type to live there is no way of getting any more blood to the hospital before both men die.
Which one would u give the blood to and why ?
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2 responses
@gulshah (861)
• China
28 Jan 07
hey as a doctor i will use one and a half bottle to both of them and this will let both of them to increase the chances of survival and i will hav more time to hav more blood so in the mean time i can hav more blood from some other blood bank so both of them r saved
@Rachcaa (163)
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28 Jan 07
Which ever one has the better chance of living after receiving the 3 pints of blood.
We all know its meant to be one of those moral dilemmas whereby certain inequalities of live are highlighted - but the prime minister will probably be in a better state of health than someone who has been living on the street (assuming they have been doing so for some time) and therefore more likely to recover.
The real moral of this story is: donate blood!
