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What should the pharmacist do morally?


The Heinz Dilemma
A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a pharmacist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the pharmacist was charging 10 times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could raise only about $1000 - half the amount he needed. He told the pharmacist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later.
But the pharmacist
rejected the man's plea saying that he had discovered the drug and intended to make money from it. Heinz became desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

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the pharmacist would have given the drug at least he would have a satisfaction that he had saved one life from cancer the most dangerous disorder or disease

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