Doctors, not bureaucrats, must make triage decisions

Published August 17, 2020 4:00am ET



Using the COVID-19 pandemic as justification, bureaucrats and politicians are practicing medicine on you without a license. This violates both the Hippocratic Oath and the law, as only licensed physicians can legally practice medicine.

Citing a shortage of much-needed medications, the state of Pennsylvania is encouraging physicians to use such a “weighted lottery” to decide which patients will receive the antiviral drug remdesivir from a limited supply and which patients will be denied the possibly lifesaving medication. Rather than allowing the physician to decide what is best for each patient, Keystone State officials want physicians to give preference for Remdesivir to low-income persons in order to balance income inequalities.

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