[Bioethics and pharmacoeconomics: a difficult balance].
While economic resources continue to decrease, there is a growing demand for health treatment. This faces health workers with an ethical dilemma. They are caught between, on the one hand, their responsibility to the individual patient and, on the other hand, the obvious need to make new treatments available to the largest number of patients. This clearly highlights the need for a regulated system of allocation of resources, whose rules must be agreed to by all operators in the field.
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