Stat (April 14) Who Gets the Last Ventilator? Pondering the Unthinkable Amid COVID-19 The patient was around 80, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, his medical record filled with the accumulations and erosions of old age.
His blood pressure was high, his spinal cord narrowing to a pinch. He had a history of alcohol addiction, but was no longer drinking.
A prostate cancer had been burned out with radiation, and he had yearly appointments to make sure it wasn’t coming back. He had type 2 diabetes.