Two victims of a train accident come into the emergency room with a pole going between both their stomachs. The team isn’t able to help one patient without causing potential injuries to the other patient. The doctors go back and forth about who to help and what to do. If they decide to help one patient, the other is sure to die. How do you decide who gets to live?
Grey’s Anatomy — Jackson’s Inheritance
Jackson’s grandfather dies and leaves him a very large inheritance, $250 million to be exact. Jackson feels like this is a burden for personal reasons, but Maggie chimes in that it is a burden because it’s hard to know how to spend that much money. She goes through all the things he could do with it and how having that many options can be tiring. This is a classic example of the overchoice problem where consumers can become overwhelmed with options. There is small note in Maggie’s speech where she says that Jackson could buy a vineyard and never work again, which would be reflective of a pure income effect.