As the death toll from Ebola nears 900 in West Africa, medical ethicists warn that US medical facilities and states have few plans in place to allocate limited supplies of life-saving medications and equipment such as ventilators if such a deadly outbreak were to occur here. Robert Truog, professor of anaesthesia (pediatrics) at Boston Children's Hospital and director of the HMS Center for Bioethics, and Paul Biddinger, assistant professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.
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