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Professor Lydia Cairncross.
He hates “playing God” and essentially deciding who is going to die, a surgeon at one of the Western Cape’s biggest hospitals says.
“But I have to choose,” the specialist, Dr P*, explained.
“And it breaks my heart how understanding my patients are. You shouldn’t have to understand. We should not even be in this situation.”
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