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There's a further complication; in most countries hospitals are required to treat (emergency) patients. This directly puts medical workers in conflict with people who ignore their advice and then require an ICU bed. There is no autonomy for hospital workers; they must quit the field or take the additional risk. This isn't a sustainable situation nationally because the government is not likely to either force them to work or rescind the laws requiring all hospitals to treat all emergency cases. Arguably something else in the rights tradeoff should give way before the medical system is dismantled from the inside or mandatory emergency care is abandoned.


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