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Who shall die ?A British gynaecologist recently chose by ballot the patients who were to be admitted to the inadequate number of beds at his disposal.He had already selected those patients with gynaecologically urgent problems, and finding not much to chose medically between the rest, he obtained their consent to select by lot.He was subsequently criticised on radio by a medically qualified administrator for not using a better method of selection.
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