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beneficial to those patients. It would be in the same
category as this. People and doctors, if they knew they
had to labor over every patient until physiologically they
had total collapse of the patient, and unless there had
been an advance directive we would have a lot more advance
directives.
I have a sense that if researchers believe that
their IRB's will not allow them to do research of a certain
category unless they have discussed that category of
research with the subject in advance at a time when the
subject can make a choice, and as you and Bernie have
pointed out this is much more applicable to people who go
in and out of periods than to someone who is on a course
because the person who goes in and out has some sense of
what you are talking about. The person with Alzheimer's --
it is a harder prospect to know.
But the incentive will be there to have those
conversations and to have that sorting.
Now once you get a person who is in the
category that they, themselves, have said it is all right
it is not as though you have carte blanche with them of
course. But the understanding is that no research
institution will allow the research to go on at a greater
minimal risk of no potential benefit on those people for