Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Organ Donation, Distributive Justice, Triage
28 Apr 2016
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You as a patient have the right to decide what happens, but it"s not an absolute right (like freedom of speech) Limits of resource allocation, basic economic theory says something will always be in scarcity, there"s a limitation in place automatically, how do we make decisions about who gets what. Not criminal justice, we"re talking about distributive justice. Like healthcare in ontario, you can"t possibly treat everyone for everything and you decide who gets what. The area that"s the biggest issue is organ donation, people die waiting for donations. We look at the list of people that need an organ and you say how can we make the decision of who gets it and who doesn"t. Alcoholic denied access to liver because he ruined his own, and he wasn"t going to stop that. Fundamentally, we can never have enough for everyone. You want to be just in how you manage a shared resource.
