Therefore they were constructed by an intelligence not unlike ours, for the purpose of husbanding and distributing scarce water.
There have been persistent claims that doctors discriminate against elderly patients in deciding how to distribute scarce NHS resources, for instance for cancer or care patients.
As the commission members begin to decide which hospitals are to survive and how to distribute scarce state money, they must take into account factors that vary widely among hospitals.
After nearly two years of fighting with the Clinton administration over how to distribute scarce donated organs, the network that runs the nation's transplant system agreed today to develop a plan to get more livers to the sickest patients.
DEBORAH KORENSTEIN, M.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York Peter Singer's excellent article makes a major point: the operation of markets in distributing scarce health resources among people and alternative uses is just as much a form of rationing as are the decisions of "soulless" bureaucrats.
In making the announcement, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city's health commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, offered a blueprint for identifying an outbreak, containing its spread and distributing scarce resources like ventilators and antiviral medications.
The book exposes a growing conflict between those who want to distribute scarce resources on an individual basis to children who are in need whatever the reason, and those who seek to eliminate group inequalities.
If crony capitalism brought Asia to its knees, as almost everybody agrees, how can anyone pretend that a country with currency controls will efficiently distribute scarce foreign currency?
They suggest that charging for all bicycle-parking facilities close to the platforms may be a feasible solution for distributing scarce bicycle places at Dutch railway stations.
Although this narrow focus may be appropriate for the purposes of clinical intervention, it obscures the recognition of disability as a social and political problem, except insofar as it raises perennial questions about how to distribute scarce health-care resources (Barnartt, et al. 2001).
