After pulling the screaming child from the rubble, the paramedics gently place the boy on the stretcher and carry him into the ambulance. The child, the victim of a traumatic car accident, barely survives, having lost a limb with severe blood loss and head trauma. When the ambulance stops in front of the emergency room doors, the nurses rush out and carry the dying boy inside. Before he could even get him into a room, doctors had already entered his symptoms into a database and received his estimated chances of survival and what treatment to administer. Thanks to this system, doctors can spend more time treating the child and less arguing about how to do it. to deal with his condition. The new computer program, called RIP, is becoming increasingly popular in hospitals nationwide because it saves time and makes difficult medical decisions easier. Such a system could prove very beneficial to healthcare across the country and the world. “Medical Technology and Ethical Issues” by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey discusses the implementation of RIP in healthcare facilities with the challenges and ethics associated with the program. According to the article, “using statistical probability, the program analyzes all inputs about a particular patient and makes a prognosis about the probability of survival” (Thompson & Hickey, 2011, para. 2). The article also explains how patients with a greater than 5% chance of survival are recommended treatments and those with lower chances are encouraged to receive no treatment. The use of RIP eliminates the pressure on doctors to make decisions on their own since the information provided provides a helpful guide but does not even serve as a mandatory element...... middle of paper... the system follows the growing trend and offer benefits that can potentially save thousands of lives. Given its speed, near-accuracy, and usefulness, medical practices would be at a disadvantage if they didn't use the program. In the future, emergency rooms may focus their limited resources on those who need immediate help with RIP. They may evolve to focus more on urgent injuries or illnesses and less on milder cases that could receive treatment elsewhere. Emergency rooms should work this way, as the name itself explains. Using RIP to receive information followed by nurses and doctors discussing the treatments and chances of survival offered appears to be the most ethical and effective way to treat patients by making informed, but not biased, decisions. It's quite amazing how such a simple technology can potentially save such a large number of lives.