International Investing

How can doctors get fat off the tax payer if the tax payer has a choice? MD lobbyists are preemptively shoring up their bottom line under the guise of safety. Add this to the existing list of readymade excuses to steal from the tax payer whose greatest hits already include, “it’s for the children,” and “the war on drugs/terrorism/poverty/whatever people are riled up about this week.”

Especially telling is how they try to make “medical tourism” to be a dirty word. No doubt they already have a press release and legislation written to whip out at the slightest pretext when there is some accident during an overseas procedure.

Is there any group left with the integrity to just do their job and not get rich off the state?

People conducting stem cell research with animals and humans also have a responsibility to report on treatments that fail, Hyun said. He joked that a journal ought to be established called Cell: Failures.

The guidelines will condemn the use of stem cells to treat patients “as unproven medical innovation” when it occurs outside an approved clinical trial, and especially when patients are charged. Scientists and doctors shouldn’t participate in such trials “as a matter of ethics,” Hyun said.

The committee said it hopes its recommendations will guide regulators in various countries develop rules for how and when to approve clinical trials and treatments.