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No YOU are talking about the “wholesale discounting…” The medical establishment is very much looking at the one rope or one unit of blood.
When a person has a loved one in the ICU, they have a single-minded focus just regarding the patient (which is how it should be) thye dont care about the 20 or so other patients that the physician has to tend to, many of whom may be sicker than their loved one. They certainly dont consider the multitudes of sick people in the general society.
Therfore they dont see the other person “drowning” or who “need the blood” The physician does see his 19 other patients some of who he can (in his view) be of more help to. OR who (again in his view) the help can be more meaningful to in one way or another.
This is the job of a physician to care for ALL his patients not just the one that you (I dont mean literally you) see. This IS the job of the medical establsihment to see ALL patients,not just the one that you (again not YOU) see