english: That sinister expression means that if hospital resources are limited, for example if only one donor heart becomes available for transplant, or if a surgeon has time to operate on only a certain number of patients, American hospitals have an explicit policy of giving preference to younger patients over older patients on the grounds that younger patients are considered more valuable to society because they have more years of life ahead of them, even though the younger patients have fewer years of valuable life experience behind them.
non_english: Ta temačni pristop pomeni, da če so bolnišnični viri omejeni, denimo če je na voljo za presaditev le srce enega darovalca, ali če ima kirurg čas operirati samo določeno število bolnikov, ameriške bolnišnice sledijo izrecni politiki dajanja prednosti mladim bolnikom in ne starejšim, saj naj bi bili mlajši bolniki za družbo vredni več, ker imajo pred seboj daljše življenje, čeprav imajo mlajši za seboj manj let koristnih izkušenj.