|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compiled by Lauri Gray Eaton
|
|
"Even if you please the patient at the time, I’m sure that some patients will wonder, ‘Gee, if he’s so willing to lie for me, will he lie to me at some point?’" — E. Haavi Morreim, Ph.D., professor, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, on exaggerating a patient’s diagnosis to obtain coverage. "There was never an excuse for dishonesty or falsification. You have to work within the system, and if the system is broken, we have to work to fix the system." — Herbert Rakatansky, M.D., vice chair of the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. American Medical News "The placebo is just an easy out. It’s an intellectually lazy approach to the evaluation of drug efficacy. We cannot deprive patients of effective treatment and live up to our ethical guidelines." — Kenneth J. Rothman, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, co-author of a 1994 study on the subject in the New England Jourtnal of Medicine. "It is just not necessary to put patients into the position of having to suffer for science." — Harvard epidemiologist Karin B. Michels, Rothman’s co-author.
– Compiled by Lauri Gray Eaton
|
|
medgaz@primetimenewspapers.com
|
