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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,860
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,860
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sham brain surgery
It is my understanding if one's physician recommends DBS and one agrees, one in fact receives the "real" thing. If one enters a clinical trial in which the possibilities of a "sham" procedure or DBS being perfromed, one may indeed undergo brain surgery as a "sham" procedure.
all patients MUST be fully cognizant of the possibility a sham procedure will be performed. For someone like charlie, there was never a possibility of a sham procedure because he was not entered into a clinical trial....
I would not want to be on the receiving end of a sham brain surgery procedure--in terms of this type of clinical trial I would be part of the "precipitate"....
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