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Tuesday, 05/19/2020 12:36:31 PM

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:36:31 PM

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No, what makes no sense is to claim it is unethical for a doctor to use discretion when treating patients for an illness for which there is no known cure until there is a double blind clinical study.

I guess it would be more ethical for the doctor to say, "This might work, but there's no clinical study for anything to treat you, so I'm just going to have someone hold your hand and hope for the best.."

That's the attitude we claim doesn't make sense. None of the drugs being used to treat COVID-19 have passed clinical studies that you speak of, and without testing "untested" drugs, you can't have a clinical study, so the conclusion would be that clinical studies themselves are unethical.

It just doesn't make sense to take that attitude in the middle of a pandemic and criticize or call unethical the doctors trying to save people's lives using whatever they think might help and whose risk is less than the disease being treated.

I don't understand why anyone cannot see that?