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Informed consent. If you have the probability numbers let people decide if they want to risk it. Make them as well as their next of kin sign ironclad contracts
by causality0 6y ago
Informed consent. If you have the probability numbers let people decide if they want to risk it. Make them as well as their next of kin sign ironclad contracts releasing the hospital and manufacturer from any and all liability.
- bsder 6y ago1) Good luck with getting informed consent from every patient on all the myriad drugs and treatments that the FDA approves in a year. The bureaucracy that ensures that will make the FDA look like a fleet-footed fox. 2) Informed consent only holds until someone's child dies. Then you're in court no matter how good your contract is. 3) Who defines the informed consent boundaries? It's turtles all the way down. All you did was push the complexity around--you didn't get rid of it. The FDA is where ethics and economics intersect. The problems don't have easy, magical answers.
- refurb 6y agoThat would never work. People sign disclaimers all the time and still sue.