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Chasing Life

Doctors' Difficult Decisions

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As coronavirus cases continue to overwhelm hospitals, resources such as ventilators are in short supply. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to NYU's Director of Medical Ethics about some of the tough questions facing healthcare professionals on the frontline. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm definitely concerned that once we see that peak, we won't have enough of the ventilators

0:07.8

amassed, the medication, the doctors, any number of things, and we're going to have to

0:12.2

decide where to allocate those resources, which is not a decision that I or any doctor

0:17.6

wants to be making.

0:19.2

That's Dr. Daria Long, an ER physician in Tennessee.

0:23.5

Like many other doctors around the world, she's facing some difficult decisions about how

0:28.2

to best care for her patients.

0:30.6

Unfortunately, resources are finite.

0:33.6

So how do doctors decide who gets potentially life-saving treatment and who doesn't?

0:39.8

It's a terrible situation to be in.

0:42.2

One we've seen some doctors in Italy already face.

0:45.8

And as seen, we may see in the United States as healthcare workers now warn they are running

0:51.0

low on supplies.

0:53.1

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

0:56.8

And this is coronavirus.

0:58.5

Fact versus fiction.

1:00.1

They call it modeling wolf where they look at what's happened around the world.

1:10.5

We think Italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point.

1:18.3

First Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence told my colleague Wolf Blitzer that the United

1:23.0

States looks set to follow the same trajectory as Italy.

1:27.8

That is grim news.

1:29.8

Some hospitals in Italy were so overwhelmed with patients they reported having to choose

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