Lederman Zohar, Voo T C
Emergency Department, Assuta Samson Hospital, Ashdod, Israel.
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore.
J R Army Med Corps. 2019 Aug;165(4):266-269. doi: 10.1136/jramc-2018-001009. Epub 2018 Aug 19.
Whether injured terrorists should receive equal consideration in medical triage as their victims is a morally and emotionally challenging issue for healthcare providers. Against the conventional approach, some commentators have argued for a principle in which severely injured victims should always be prioritised over an injured terrorist even if the terrorist is worse off based on justice ideas. This paper argues that supporters of fail to sufficiently justify the subversion of the equal rights of terrorists to treatment and the role and professional ethics of healthcare providers in the allocation of scarce medical resources. Accordingly, they fail to substantiate an exceptional approach for emergency medical triage during terror or terror-like attack situations.
在医疗分诊中，受伤的恐怖分子是否应与他们的受害者得到同等对待，这对医疗服务提供者来说是一个道德和情感上具有挑战性的问题。与传统方法不同，一些评论家主张一项原则，即即使从正义观念来看恐怖分子的伤势更严重，重伤的受害者也应始终优先于受伤的恐怖分子。本文认为，这些支持者未能充分证明颠覆恐怖分子获得治疗的平等权利以及医疗服务提供者在稀缺医疗资源分配中的作用和职业道德的合理性。因此，他们未能证实一种在恐怖或类似恐怖袭击情况下进行紧急医疗分诊的特殊方法。
