Legally blind: the therapeutic illusion in the SUPPORT study of extremely premature infants

GJ Annas, CL Annas - J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y, 2013 - HeinOnline
GJ Annas, CL Annas
J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y, 2013HeinOnline
Physician-researchers follow a protocol to generate generalizable knowledge; physicians
have a duty to treat patients in ways they and their patients think best. In both activities,
research and treatment, physicians often see themselves simply as physicians, practicing
medicine. Sick people have similar perception difficulties, and prefer to think of their
physicianresearcher simply as their physician, even when their treatment is 2 determined by
a protocol or the flip of a coin. Almost 20 years ago, in this
Physician-researchers follow a protocol to generate generalizable knowledge; physicians have a duty to treat patients in ways they and their patients think best. In both activities, research and treatment, physicians often see themselves simply as physicians, practicing medicine. Sick people have similar perception difficulties, and prefer to think of their physicianresearcher simply as their physician, even when their treatment is 2 determined by a protocol or the flip of a coin. Almost 20 years ago, in this
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