Radiolab again. This episode is very moving. What happens when people have to ration medical care in extreme situations?

The story focuses first on Sheri Fink’s reporting of “Five Days at Memorial“, then on a public forum in Baltimore, and finally on an person who needed oxygen during a disaster in Haiti.

After Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke, at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans there were 5 days of serious trauma because of limited resources. At several points, people had to make difficult choices about whose needs would be given priority. Then discussion started to creep further toward other difficult choices that might have to be made…

well i’m devastated, i had to crawl under the covers for the whole of Saturday following St Kilda’s painful display of losing the first elimination final. They had to work pretty hard at messing up all their opportunities to take control. Crikey malikey, i’m pissed now. i mean pissed in the american sense, ie pissed off. No i’m not drunk on a Sunday arvo.

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My mother’s about to come around and visit. i know she’s just out of hospital, and i should visit her instead, but how can i drive over to her place now my car has a canary splattered all over the windshield? They only give you a month to get it fixed before you’re not allowed to drive any more. How am i supposed to get it fixed if i can’t drive it? Bloody hell!

This YouTube video is one i enjoyed – Life in adult community education office.

with heavy-hearted tears for the fallen saints, crap final game you guys,
regards michael