What Would You Do If … Dilemmas In A Zombie Apocalypse: No. 19 – The Doctor’s Dilemma
You are a doctor in a remote field hospital tending refugees who have fled from the advancing zombie swarms sweeping across the country. Ever since you arrived, you’ve been working in a children’s ward and in your care are twenty patients ranging in age from a few years old to ones who are almost teenagers. Some are so ill they cannot get out of bed, while others are up and about most of the time. After yet another long day, you are ready to head to your tent in the camp, but no one comes to relief you. You try calling the headquarters but, yet again, the phones are down. Going outside, you see that the refugee camp is in turmoil, with everyone scrambling to leave as soon as possible. You flag down a man in an old army truck and ask him what’s going on. He tells you there are rumours of a zombie horde sweeping up the valley towards the camp, and that everyone who can get out is leaving as soon as possible just in case. Then he asks if you want to come with him. You think about this for a moment, if there really are zombies coming and you go with him, it will be your best chance of surviving, but you will be abandoning any children you leave behind to a certain death. If you stay, while you might survive a zombie attack on the camp, it would be very unlikely. On the other hand, though it prove to be just a rumour, as has been the case before. If this is the case, neither you nor the children are in danger if you stay, yet if you leave, any of them that remain in the hospital will die because you’re not there to look after them. What do you do?
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