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Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel M.D.


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October 2008: "Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, one of the study’s authors, said doctors should not prescribe antibiotics or sedatives as placebos, given those drugs’ risks. Use of less active placebos is understandable, he said, since risks are low....“Everyone comes out happy: the doctor is happy, the patient is happy,” said Dr. Emanuel, chairman of the bioethics department at the health institutes."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/health/24placebo.html

July 2007: Debate now rages over where to draw the line on this brand of self-defense. Some would keep it just where it is. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, an oncologist and chair of clinical bioethics at the NIH's Warren G. Magnusen Clinical Center, wrote in The New Republic last July that the D.C. Circuit Court's initial decision would send us 'back to the snake-oil days.' And a right to experimental drugs could undermine the whole drug-evaluation system: Why join a clinical trial if you could bypass it?

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/01/why_cant_you_buy_a_kidney_to_save_your_life?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+Section

February 2005: '"Even my secretary is going to have to sell her stock. How much sense does that make?" fumed Ezekiel Emanuel, chairman of the agency's department of clinical bioethics.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58845-2005Feb2.html

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RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Executive (past or present) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Organization Oct 24, 2008
Cooperation (past or present) Professor Victor R. Fuchs Ph.D. Person Nov 24, 2007

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Oct 24, 2008 Half of Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos

QUOTE: Half of all American doctors responding to a nationwide survey say they regularly prescribe placebos to patients. The results trouble medical ethicists, who say more research is needed to determine whether doctors must deceive patients in order for placebos to work.

 New York Times
Jul 01, 2007 Why can't you buy a kidney to save your life? A growing legal movement to recognize a new fundamental right -- 'medical self-defense' -- could bring jarring social changes

QUOTE: There is a growing push in medical, legislative, and legal circles -- both liberal and conservative -- to recognize an expansive new right that some are describing as "medical self-defense." .... A potential landmark case ... could make access to unapproved drugs a full-blown constitutional right.

 Boston Globe
Dec 06, 2005 Study Debunks That Blacks Are Wary of Medical Research: Minorities Are Willing to Volunteer but Often Are Not Asked

QUOTE: Given the chance to participate, minorities volunteer at least as often as whites do, according to the first study to measure response rates directly. And although minorities are indeed underrepresented in research, the reason appears to be that doctors and scientists reach out to them less.

 Washington Post
Feb 03, 2005 NIH Workers Angered by New Ethics Rules: Restrictions on Outside Income Meet With Derision at Meeting

QUOTE: National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni stood before hundreds of NIH employees yesterday to explain why it had become necessary for him to impose, in his words, "drastic" restrictions on stock ownership and other forms of outside income, which take effect today for all agency employees.

 Washington Post