Abstract

It happens quite often that a physician or health specialist faces force majeure conditions in which s/he does not know what to do; for instance, when s/he has two or more patients exposed to risk and s/he does not have the ability to treat both considering the facilities s/he has and the particular conditions s/he is faced with, or when a patient is exposed to two risks and the physician needs to deal with and avoid both risks. The question is “how can s/he handle both? At the same time, there is benefit in both force majeure conditions and both need expediency, but we are not aware of it. However, there must be a criterion for determining the priority for treatment of one patient over the other or a treatment priority for avoiding the serious risk over the non-serious one. We will discuss this issue in several phases to find an operational solution for determining the criterion for treatment priority.