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longship

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3. Yup. It is a risky venture.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 6, 2014, 07:48 PM

Aug 2014

The animal models of disease do not often translate to humans. A treatment that works in mice most often does not work in humans. But when death is the nearly inevitable conclusion, compassionate exceptions may be made.

Medicine is always an ethical discipline. Primum non nocere. That maxim may be set aside only in extraordinary circumstances. This Ebola outbreak may very well be one of them.

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Ethical issue: Who gets experimental Ebola drug? [View all] PoliticAverse Aug 2014 OP

My guess is that this one might be expedited in Africa Warpy Aug 2014 #1

Thanks for the info. I was wondering this. nt LittleBlue Aug 2014 #2

Yup. It is a risky venture. longship Aug 2014 #3

"First, do no harm" has to be ameliorated by Warpy Aug 2014 #4

Yup, compassionate exception. longship Aug 2014 #5