Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Enzyme regulation - page 603

Sometimes while being treated for one particular disease or ailment a patient may inadvertently provide doctors and scientist with answers solving another medical dilemma. The question is who should benefit (economically) from this discovery, the patient whose body may have held the answer of the doctor/scientist that discovered it while treating the patient? Further, what ethical dilemmas could occur if we begin to reward people for simply having a biological anomaly?