Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Palliative Care
25 Apr 2014
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Each patiente is owned a fair share of the health care resources. Rationing should be based on the good of the patient on the whole , not just the good of the patientes on a one-byond basis. That is community good rather than medical good of a specifc patient. A truster is somone entrusted to administer property or resources for the benefit of another person, persons or instituions. A practionoer sees many patients in a given year. Each patient is owed a fair of the practitioner"s resources. A practitioner"s resources (consultation, assesment, follow-up referrals, etc) are a fixed. There is a practical limit per day, per week, per month, etc. For example, on aparticular day, two patients may benefit from admission to hospital for observation, but a bed is avaliable for only one of them. Rationing essults in one patient receving a higher degree of care than the other.
