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How to handle medical discoveries that will increase healthcare inequality

My lab discovered a breakthrough treatment but it requires resources that will only be available to wealthy patients and I don't know if advancing medical knowledge that increases inequality is ethical.

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Your breakthrough treatment will only reach rich patients, and you're unsure whether that kind of progress is even right.

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