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today. In our first meeting or two we had some exchange
about it. I personally feel that it is unsolvable at the
present time. The problem of how to solve confidentiality
in medical care and medical records is -- I cannot see how
to get a handle on it.
On the other hand it is possible for us to take
up a problem not so much with a solution in view as with a
way of delineating this is what the problem is, it is in
these different kinds of situations, and we have done it
when we have laid out the problem. We can now step back
from it and let there be public debate about it as we have
laid it out.
There is an interesting -- opportunity is
offered by the fact that the 20th anniversary of the
Belmont Report is coming up in April of 1999. So the topic
that you will find listed in this report is the Belmont
Report Revisited.
An in-depth discussion of the adequacy of its
conceptual framework or -- adequacy is not right. The
changes in its conceptual framework of the paradigm shift
that has occurred since 1979 in the latter progress in
research ethics and the public consciousness. As I note,
it would be a good thing to see this happen and come out at
the same time as the anniversary. I have a personal thing