Vicky Phelan: Doctors are going to be faced with harsh decisions during Covid-19 crisis

'That's exactly why I've been isolating myself since such an early stage because I don't want to put the doctors in that position.'
Vicky Phelan: Doctors are going to be faced with harsh decisions during Covid-19 crisis

Cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has said that doctors are going to be faced with harsh decisions during the Covid-19 crisis and that if a doctor had to make a decision between herself and another person with a better chance of survival, she hoped that they would save the person with the least complications.

“I've kind of made my peace with that and I would hope that if a doctor had to make that decision and was presented with two patients - me and another person who was in around the same age and who had a better chance of survival - I know this sounds very harsh, I've had to get my head around that - I would hope that the doctor would make the decision to save the person who would have least complications and better chance of survival,” she told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.

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