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MR. CAPRON: How does the general differ from
the present situation? That is to say -- you know, the
assumption is when I went into the hospital last year I
signed a consent form that allowed general use of tissues.
I mean, there was some language that was not brought to my
attention but it was there.
Is that what you are thinking about?
DR. EMANUEL: No.
MR. CAPRON: You are thinking about something
that goes well beyond that. In practical effect --
DR. EMANUEL: Let's say -- let's be clear. One
of the reasons we are not going to full informed consent is
because in many circumstances when you collect your tissue
you --
MR. CAPRON: You do not know what the study
will be.
DR. EMANUEL: We have no idea what the study --
and we do not want to tie hands today for studies that
might -- we might want to do fifty years from now or
whatever. So the issue is what kind of consent can you
have? Is signing a piece of paper where there is one
obscure line -- and actually some of us have looked at some
of those lines. They are not nearly as good as you would
like them to be currently. So one issue is to make that