Rule of Rescue

• 'a perceived duty to save endangered life where possible'
• 'the sense of immediate duty that people feel towards those who present themselves to a health service with a serious condition'
• 'an ethical imperative to save individual lives even when money might be more efficiently spent to prevent deaths in the larger population'
• 'the powerful human proclivity to rescue a single identified endangered life, regardless of cost, at the expense of any nameless faces who will therefore be denied health care'