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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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what's in it for me? and everybody else?
Paula - this is why I argue that if they want universal participation in clinical trials, then the price is universal access to the fruits of that participation.
"Here's why I do not see trial participation as an obligation. Where are the public goods? and --why? I don't see them." - Paula
Universal, duitiful participation is only half of the equation.
You do have to wonder if there was more participation in clinical trials, would we be ahead of the game in disease cure and treatment right now?
We can't be required (not simply asked) to sacrifice our health for the greater good unless there is some benefit. I would argue the benefit would be access to the best health care without fear of bankruptcy or even lesser financial hardship.
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
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