Syag
As I said “Though he (and I) probably wouldn’t describe it that way)”
Sadly though (arguably) it is sacrificing. Time too is a finite resource. In the regular world even if there is a remote chance of survial doctors will try (to an extent) to revive patients. Worst case time was spent “for nothing” nu nu so the doctor goes without luch that day small price to pay for a chance at saving someone.
Here we are in a whole other world as he said (At least twice an hour we hear the call overhead that somebody upstairs is in cardiac arrest; To put that in context in regular times it isnt even daily – though of course depends on hopital).
Now it isnt lunch time that is being given up to try to save a patient who will most likely not make it. It is a nother patient who has a chance. Time spent trying to save one will have to be sacrificed to try to save the other.
How do you decide who to save , is an important question
you can flip a coin?
make a judgment call who is more likely to survive?
make a judgment call who is more likely to gain?
kal dalum gvar?
whoever pays you more?
first come first serve?
Give precedence to societal factors (a kohein more choshuv a talmud chochom) ?
but somehow a decision has to be made who to save and who to leave (“sacrifice?”)