04-06-2018, 04:21 PM
(04-06-2018, 07:55 AM)jamincan Wrote: That's a rabbit hole we don't want to go down. That person with the heart attack had McDonald for supper last night and is a smoker. The person hit by the car was on their phone and not wearing bright and reflective clothing. We triage based on need and in dire situations, prognosis, not based on virtue or moral deficiency.
The difference is known facts:
A person having a heart attack might have a healthy diet, and is a non-smoker, but had an undiagnosed heart condition. A person hit by a car may have been legally crossing the road, when an idiot ran a red light (this happened to me when I was in grade 8) and ran them over. Many of these are hit and runs.
In any event, we can't 'triage' the above people because their too busy with people who are KNOWINGLY breaking the law, PURPOSELY getting drunk, UNDERAGE drinking, and are all at an ILLEGAL party, these are all the known facts.
As for the above, we don't know. Though evidence suggests that the majority of pedestrian accidents occur a legal traffic crossing with the driver making an illegal maneuver. I'm not sure about heart attack "victims", but from I've seen, a lot have had a unknown heart condition and many seemed relatively healthy. A friend of mine, who's only 49, had a heart attack, he doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs, and eats healthy. That's just the way life goes sometimes.
One thing we do know though is that getting stupid drunk is going to create serious health issues.