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  1. Xref: sparky sci.med:14517 talk.politics.drugs:5346
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!pitt!geb
  3. From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.drugs
  5. Subject: Re: FDA still at large
  6. Message-ID: <15834@pitt.UUCP>
  7. Date: 26 Jul 92 22:46:11 GMT
  8. References: <1992Jul23.081405.3582@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Jul23.164209.16428@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <HALL.92Jul22083956@cheetah.cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu>
  9. Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu
  10. Followup-To: sci.med
  11. Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
  12. Lines: 26
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  14. In article <HALL.92Jul22083956@cheetah.cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu> hall@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu writes:
  15.  
  16. >>Since the cancer is so advanced, the chemotherapists did not object to her
  17. >>decision not to do the chemo - she's too weak, already, and there is less than
  18. >
  19. >Who the hell are the chemotherapists to object to her decisions about her
  20. >own body, anyway?
  21. >
  22. As was pointed out recently, if they felt that chemotherapy would
  23. help, and they failed to object (and in writing), they become liable
  24. for lawsuits against them for failure to provide adequate
  25. "informed refusal".
  26.  
  27. [On going to Tijuana for crackpot treatments]
  28. >
  29. >Did these people promise one thing and deliver another?  That's the
  30.  
  31. Almost always they do that, yes, indeed.  They make all kinds of
  32. promises, but can't deliver.
  33.  
  34.  
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  37. Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
  38. geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
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