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"It is very difficult to try to do what is right without doing harm," says Nancy Dubler, director of bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Dubler heads the ethics group considering the plan.

If the idea flies, the ambulance could be on the streets as early as next month.

"We're moving slowly," says Lewis Goldfrank, professor and chairman of emergency medicine at Bellevue Hospital, who heads the team. "There is immense potential, but the No. 1 topic is the ethics."

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