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...free speech issue,” Pryor wrote in the memo. “Zach rightly brought attention to problems that should be addressed and, as a result, are now being actively dealt with. It’s a pity he couldn’t be more patient...
According to the study, over one-third of the members on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)—the committees charged with monitoring patient studies at hospitals and research facilities—say they have at least one financial relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. And 42 percent said they didn’t always disclose conflicts of interest...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...important "art of medicine" issue is sensitivity to the individual's right to self-determination. We work hard to respect patient choice. Lots of explaining, rebutting and cleaning up messes. And as the government should, we draw a line. I won't prescribe cyanide for a patient in pain, even if he asks for it, and the government shouldn't permit home nuclear bomb experiments, even for garage-inventors who promise to be careful...
...some people love cannabis and they're going to get it anyway. Good doctors do learn to persuade and cajole to gently make what we think is the right choice into the patient's choice. ("The girls in therapy really seem to get a kick out of you. Are you sure you don't want to go anymore?") The government equivalent of this is called "drug education" and it's fine. But when you try to change certain things by force, things close to the core about what folks love and hate, about their personalities, you just run into trouble...