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We are working on solutions or we have handed
this over to other people to work on solutions. We wanted
to summarize and stop doing this. Let me say by way of
background that before I began doing this work I certainly
was an advocate, I am an attorney, I did not particularly
do ethics work, and I came to this with a kind of naivete
and impatience because of my status that have proven to be
very useful because people who are naive and people who are
impatient tell other people, "Well, we can get this done,"
and they keep pushing and it gets done, and the group that
worked on this was very multifaceted.
There were pathologists. There were ethicists.
There were other consumers. There were population studies
people, public health people. There were surgeons. So
there was a wide variety of mix. There were academicians
and there were clinical practitioners in this group that
worked on all these.
So where are we? We handed our model documents
to PRIMER or PRIMAR and they have put them together very
beautifully with a summary of the joint meeting we had with
their concerns and have distributed them at their plenary
session at an annual meeting just last month with feedback
information.
Now some of that concerns me. When we took