Negotiation #5 "The Hospital Committee"

A rather uncomfortable decisioin to make for this life threatening dilemma in which all patients in need of the dialysis machine, and that no matter what decision made, someone will be left behind to die. All deserved it, but only 1 can have it. What a difficult dillema to be put in. Using process of elimination was hard enough, but when Laura Ellen, Amy and I tried to discuss our priortizing by values that too became complicated. Laura Ellen had an interesting view point, by pointing out the social impact, which helped her categorize them. Amy and I took more of the urgency standpoint, in our stance. We all agreed that all are very important and truly in the "real world" we would be stumped by this decision. This form of socialized medicine was hard enough, but Dr. Strange performed as each patient, it got harder. Each patient, of course, ended up only having two weeks to live. Dr. Strange did a good job, acting as each patient! This particular negotiation reminded of the illustration used by Team Building excercise. Where upon deciding the group of people that go on the lifeboat. It is a similar method of deciding who can get on the lifeboat, and how the teams came to that conclusion, based upon each person's critical skills, ect...
It was an interesting negotiation.