Embarrassed to admit that triage decisions are made
Triage seems a term dating back centuries, it is a concept stretching back millennia. It was in a history of the First World War that I first encountered it.
Doctors at the front had to make instant decisions on who they would treat: there were the walking wounded, who would live regardless of what treatment was received; there were those who were going to die, regardless of what intervention was made; and there were those for whom medical attention could be the difference between life and death.
There must have …