The Ford Government’s January 13, 2021 Critical Care Triage Protocol Would Make Every Triage Doctor a Law Unto Themselves, Denying Due Process or Fair Procedure to Patients Whose Lives Are In Jeopardy – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

In this Update we focus on one powerful and very disturbing illustration of how doctors would wrongly become a law unto themselves. They would too often be able to consciously or unconsciously bring to bear their own personal and subjective preferences when deciding which patients they will deny life-saving critical care. The January 13, 2021 triage protocol which was secretly sent to Ontario hospitals gives no due process or procedural fairness to a patient who needs life-saving critical care, but whom a doctor might refuse critical care.

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https://aoda.ca/the-ford-governments-january-13-2021-critical-care-triage-protocol-would-make-every-triage-doctor-a-law-unto-themselves-denying-due-process-or-fair-procedure-to-patients-whose-lives-are-in-jeopard/

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