But the doctor who suggested at the meeting that DNR patients go last had a different understanding, he later explained. Medical chairman Richard Deichmann said that he thought the law required patients with DNR orders to have a certified terminal or irreversible condition, and at Memorial he believed they should go last because they would have had the “least to lose” compared with other patients if calamity struck—a value judgment more than a medical one.
Sickening abuse of power. They knew.
