(December 7, 2013 at 6:06 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: If it weren't for risky trials involving real patients, people would still be dying of all sorts of illnesses that are now easily treatable with the right meds. It's not like they look at an illness and invent the right drug to cure/control it and get it right first time. It's all trial and error.
Very true. Plus, they find other ways to test before they move onto trials with patients. It isn't like doctors just get a treatment idea in their head and immediately move onto trying it.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama