In March 2020, edicts from many states required offices and hospitals to cancel all non-emergent surgeries and office visits to prevent hospitals from being overloaded, preserve personal protective equipment, and prevent the spread of COVID-19 with the goal to flatten the curve of novel corona virus infections on the community Beneficence demands health care providers develop and maintain skills and knowledge, continually update training, consider individual circumstances of all patients, and strive for net benefit [ ]justice discusses fairness in decisions, which can burden or benefit, are equally considered [ ]Jus Post Bellum considers how the war is ended and how the restoration of the community is completed
Rationing Urology Care During a Pandemic: A Primer