Yesterday, I happened to see a very interesting article on a website. Though I could just read excerpt as it was a paid article but the concept itself was very new in its approach. The article talked about the patients veto power in the participation of clinical trials. At the first glance I was baffled about the approach and gone weary but later as I put a second thought over it, I realized that it was even more than worth to be discussed and think off.
The article described the very raging concept arising these days about patient denial towards their participation in Clinical Research. A food for thought.!! The more you think more you get perplexed. It seems like entangling in web with no way out. Any Clinical Research on present patients is conducted for the welfare of forthcoming and future generation. So, in no case it gets futile and waste. The person participating in Clinical trials are almost equivalent to army soldiers who fight for their country without caring for their lives. And, to fight for safety of one’s country is obligatory. But then contradiction is-sparing few (like Great Britain) almost all the countries leave it up to the consent of people only whether or not to join the army. Henceforth, it doesn’t stands as a mandatory duty of any citizen of a country.
Connecting with this burgeoning argument the idea is- patients can’t veto their participation in the Clinical Trials. In no circumstances they can pull off from study unless and until authorities decides to do so. Or simply some of the others want it to attach it in fundamental duties of citizen for their active participation whenever need be.
A clinical Research as we all know encompass around four stages where an existing or entirely new drug is tested in different stages upon animals, volunteers, patients , healthy human being etc depending upon the stage of the clinical trial.
With human life at stake, the arguments of ‘to veto’ or ‘not to veto’ becomes too critical an issue to be wind up mere with the passing comments. Here all are invited to think of it and read it seriously and post what they think about these kinds of ongoing trends of diminishing the individual freedom or is it making them more important by involving them directly for country’s growth. Is it a test of how patriotic is you or….?
(This article has previously been published on http://fermish.com/blogs/)
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