Editors ’ introductory note

We have all been exposed to the horrors of the devastating coronavirus disease pandemic of 2019, and we have heard on the news and through social media the challenges that so many of our brave first responders, nurses, respiratory therapists, fellow physicians, families, and healthcare workers have suffered through. The following unsolicited editorial was written by a group of clinicians confronting the ethical problems they may face if a shortage of ventilators were to occur in their setting. Although not true ethicists as such, they represent the real world of dedicated, thoughtful, caring ethical surgeons.
Source: Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research