(2) Call for attention to 'equity' & proper concern for already disadvantaged laudable: But there appears a troubling disconnect in this article between emphasis on 'equity' and attention for "people facing poverty, discrimination, language barriers and historical trauma" and ...
(3) suggestion that 'palliative care thus becomes the compassionate option to counterbalance this inequity". Palliative care should be available as matter of principle to all. Not as a token to substitute for care provided in priority to others when ...
(4) triage guidelines presented as 'value neutral' clinical decision making tools fail to address or account for these inequities & perhaps even enhance them by categorizing people w disabilities in category of lowest priority
(5) 'fairness' is something very different than formal equality, promoted in clinical triage guidelines promoted by some of same authors in...
(6) draft guidelines not officially distributed yet, but discussed in this Toronto star article thestar.com/news/canada/20…
(7) with more of my comments on these guidelines in this thread threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244456…
(8) concluding statement of CMAJ article should be emphasized as key: "Any triage system that does not integrate palliative care principles is unethical. Patients who are not expected to survive should not be abandoned but must receive palliative care as a human right."
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