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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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Richard, it was totally wrong what the surgery did, but a point of order - "patients with cancer" is not the same thing as patients with "serious health conditions such as incurable cancer, motor neurone disease, and untreatable heart and lung conditions’.
When I read your post, I assumed it was patients in early stage of cancer diagnosis/treatment - our local Health Trust is delaying treatment for those, because they believe compromising their immune system with cancer treatment, with the COVID-19 virus around, is a greater risk than delaying the treatment.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Are they apologising because it’s a bad idea of because it’s in the news?
I suppose at least they have given us insight into the crisis to come.
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Triage is a basic concept of Emergency Medicine - not nice, but a fact.