TY - JOUR T1 - Limited resources? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 139 LP - 139 VL - 56 IS - 523 AU - Richard Lehman Y1 - 2006/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/523/139.1.abstract N2 - The editorial by Ryan and Watson1 begins, ‘In publicly provided healthcare systems, when limited resources are coupled with unlimited demand, decisions have to be made about the efficient allocation of scarce resources.’ If a supermarket manager wrote an editorial claiming that demand for food is infinite and it is therefore impossible to keep his shelves … ER -