According to a Washington Post item, one of the nation's top medical ethicists has adopted the position that it is more appropriate to give young adults priority because they are at higher risk of dying in a flu pandemic and they still have many productive years left. The head of the bioethics department at the National institutes of Health is quoted as saying, "Most people have the intuition to say, 'Give it to my 19-year-old. I got to 65; I've lived a good life . . . "We are not interested in purely the number of lives [saved], but also life-years."

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How very cheerful for someone like me who spent what should have been the best years of her life working for USM.