A medical doctor receives two urgent severe patients arriving at the same time from two different ambulances into a Hospital’s Emergency Room.
- One of the patients is very bad, having very little chance of surviving, but as it yet exists, his chances are still standing.
- The other one is in a better condition and has a bigger chance of surviving, but time is against him or her if medical care is not taken immediately.
One doctor, limited resources, two severe patients, time expiring, one “impossible” decision to take.
The unavoidable question:
Having limited resources, i.e. having enough resources to save one of them, and one only, to which of the two patients will the doctor proceed to life-save?
