Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom
Health Freedom Minute April 4, 2014
Treated as Research Subject Without Consent The stimulus gave $1 billion for comparative effectiveness research, which has been described as randomly assigning patients to different, widely used treatments for their conditions to determine which treatments work best for which patients.” Some experts now claim that some of this research “may not require patient consent.” So, do you enter a hospital seeking the best care for you or expecting to be put in a randomized study without your consent? Ask your doctor about comparative effectiveness research or continuous quality improvement – another term for this research -- and see if you want to switch doctors. Minnesota has a bill to allow this research without consent for heart attack victims. “Have we gone too far with informed consent?” Michael Cook, BioEdge, February 22, 2014. “Rethinking Informed Consent,” Xavier Symons, BioEdge, March 8, 2014.
Presented daily by Twila Brase, President, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. The Health Freedom Minute is now heard in 37 states: Mornings M-Th at AM1280 (The Patriot) in MN and 91.5 AM WHKC (FreedomFM) in OH, afternoons on American Family Radio, and daily on the Bott Radio Network.
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