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How resource scarcity forces healthcare workers to ration care

I work in a clinic in a low-income area and we're always running out of supplies so I have to decide who gets the good equipment and who gets the stuff that barely works.

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The inequality of resources transforms medical providers into unwilling arbiters of who deserves the best chance at healing.

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