An Ethicist on How to Make Impossible Decisions

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Arthur Caplan, NYU’s chief medical ethicist, discusses the tough calls doctors have to make on how to ration care.

James Hamblin

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Inside a newly erected field hospital in Manhattan’s Central Park, March 30, 2020Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters

Tents are now strewn across Manhattan’s Central Park—a field hospitals in the literal sense—that resemble the convalescence wards of the 1918 flu pandemic.

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