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- Registration of alternative treatments with contact info (registered business address, etc.). Prevent fly-by-night hucksters from hiding in the dark. - Requi
by ballenf 3y ago
- Registration of alternative treatments with contact info (registered business address, etc.). Prevent fly-by-night hucksters from hiding in the dark.
- Require disclosure of ingredients
- Require disclosure of tests for contaminants
- Require disclosure of adverse advents
- Have a standardized form for all of the above. Kind of a "truth-in-lending" document but for alternative treatments.
- Allow licensed doctors more freedom to administer alternative treatments without fear of license loss, so long as patient consent is received. This could be allow weeding out of some of the actual snake oil, but would add cost.
- zaptrem 3y agoI’d suggest adding: - Cannot charge patient for treatment. That way nobody can actually sell snake oil.
- hef19898 3y agoAnd apply medical trial standards. And everyone benefits, evem treatment isn't successful there are research results to work with.
- finite_depth 3y ago[dead]
- tim333 3y agoNot charging would prevent treatments like the one in this article which would presumably be expensive. I think better that a doctor has to sign off a bit of paper saying they feel the treatment is reasonable. They'd be reluctant to do that for snake oil.
- david-gpu 3y ago> Not charging would prevent treatments like the one in this article Charging patients opens the door to any unscrupulous doctor to profit from desperate people. Not charging patients closes the door to some potential legitimate treatments until e.g. a university funds some research to try them out. I know which one of the two worlds I would rather live in.
- jmartrican 3y agoI strongly agree. The makers of the treatment recoup their investment once the treatment goes into prod. But while in beta, it should be free to the patient. Without this rule, I can imagine a world where businesses make a living selling treatments that are never intended to get past the FDA's certificatuon process.