Dan Minette wrote:
>
>> <serious>
>> I believe you can't treat health care - and everything
>> related to Life & Death - by the cool methods of
>> economical [ok, ok] science. Or maybe you can - if
>> you add *a very important long term*: the fact that
>> treating human lifes as numbers will add a callousness
>> to *all* relations in the society that will possibly
>> be disruptive of the social order in the future.
>
> Well, I'm trying to use numbers to show that we are
> facing very difficult decisions.
>
Ok, and I am just pointing that ==maybe== using numbers
in the subject of human life may have hidden costs that
should be computed. Namely: that by using numbers in
this subject the society may become more callous.
>
> I'm not trying to devalue human life. But, we cannot
> devote more than 100% of our resources to medicine.
>
Yes, this is impossible.
> We have to make cost based life and death
> decisions. We can either do it up front or hide how we
> do it.
>
I think we should hide it :-)
Alberto Monteiro
