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Magik - indeed and interesting question.
Frankly, I have no problem with this concept, except wouldn't the illness that is causing the death skew results? Just a thought. I have never been against responsible decision making. Then again, I am also for euthanasia. I watched my father die of cancer and it wasn't pretty. [ 05-07-2003, 08:34 PM: Message edited by: Charean ]
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I think it's still a case of volunteering, or at least, informed agreement, Willow, even if as you say, the side effects aren't known and the option to try the experimental treatment is a last resort. People would still have the option to not do it, but unless they are sufficiently counselled about the potential consequences then their options are not fully informed. It's not even an issue of legality for me, but ethicality - I think it's morally wrong to mislead or deceive people from a position of authority. What about if the person is incapable of making the decision themselves? Should their family members be able to make the decision for them?
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Aelia, what I meant about volunteering is that it is often not the patient that decides, itīs his/hers relatives. Thus the patient has no say and cannot be called a volunteer per se. |
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Some people say that if you are terminally ill you are not fit to make decisions abotu your own health care. Seems they consider you to be under undue stress. Personally I say BS to that. Unless you are insensate or in a coma you should be the determing choice about treatment. And yes I think doctors would have an ethical obligation to explain about untested medicines.
Willow, Im not saying to just randomly pick substances to see what they do...yes there would have had to have been some preliminary testing to see if the substance or treatment were applicable to the disease in question. [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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if diagnosed with insanity - no if against its will - no the abuses of this kind of medical experimentation.. there may be a mad scientist or bio-terror biologist that would "coerce" people to be guinea pigs in turn would look like "voluteers" but actually not. who knows?
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