Advance Directives to resolve Conflicts of Commitment in COVID-19 Triage Proposals

by Steven H. Miles, MD In the face of the COVID-9 pandemic, many bioethicists are turning their attention to scholarship of triage ethics. Some focus on technology, i.e., the commandeering or allocating of mechanical ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenators (ECMO). Others focus on patients, i.e., who shall be given most or least priority for health care resources in dire scarcity? Implicit in all triage proposals is the potential for Conflicts of Commitment. There are nuanced differences between a Conflicts of Commitment and a Conflict of Interest.…
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