Reflection on the Elderly Discrimination in the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources from the Age Restriction Phenomenon in ICU of a Certain Country
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2022.01.14
- VernacularTitle:从某国ICU年龄限制现象反思稀缺医疗资源分配中的老年歧视疑虑
- Author:
Jingwen ZHENG
1
;
Yanling CHEN
1
;
Zihan DAI
1
;
Yuling WU
1
;
Linhai CHU
1
;
Wanlin ZHOU
2
Author Information
1. Department of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350108, China
2. College of Health, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Rare Medical Resources;
Distributive Justice;
Age Discrimination;
Moral Intuition
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2024;35(1):78-83
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In March 2020, the outflow of age limited videos from ICU in Spain inspired us to rethink whether there is age discrimination in the allocation of scarce medical resources. This paper frist reflected on the problem of age discrimination caused by this phenomenon from four moral intuitions: the sacred view of life, the quality of life and values, public health ethics and Chinese culture, and then examined whether it is illegal from the legal level, finally pointed out the negative impact on the society, and put forward that taking age as the standard for the allocation of scarce medical resources is not suitable for China’s national conditions.
