tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post5373277390961554171..comments2024-02-10T02:14:39.898-05:00Comments on Buckeye Surgeon: Northwestern Cardiac ControversyJeffrey Parks MD FACShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650563299849196122noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-27929402781018466712010-10-03T17:09:13.927-04:002010-10-03T17:09:13.927-04:00The Myxo device never got an FDA approval. The dev...The Myxo device never got an FDA approval. The device is now called the D'etiologix, new name and new indication.<br /><br />Therefore, the device implanted in the patients is still considered experimental.<br /><br />Experimental device without informed consent means human experimentation- goes against the Nuremberg laws and the Common Rule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-17464971571651133032009-12-28T17:40:12.986-05:002009-12-28T17:40:12.986-05:00Dear Buckeye Surgeon:
I believe that you are wron...Dear Buckeye Surgeon:<br /><br />I believe that you are wrong in assuming that Dr. Rajamannan is neither heroic nor selfless. I believe she is. Why? Because I have read the posts on heart.org. When she questioned the integrity of Dr. McCarthy, Northwestern stopped her from practicing medicine at the hospital. Therefore likely she had to get a lawyer to fight her case to reinstate her clinical duties. Also reading the profiles of the professors at Northwestern, she appears to be their top researcher. Please check out all the details. <br /><br />From a Concerned Citizen for the welfare of patientsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-63125721706002482282009-12-28T11:13:54.099-05:002009-12-28T11:13:54.099-05:00Buckeye, I forgot to ask if the IRB had any oversi...Buckeye, I forgot to ask if the IRB had any oversight of the use of the non approved technology?tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-61042510614995387742009-12-26T12:36:38.264-05:002009-12-26T12:36:38.264-05:00Buckeye-
The article is interesting. Unfortunatel...Buckeye-<br />The article is interesting. Unfortunately it brings up issues that may erode public trust in physicians—a prominent arrogant surgeon implanting unproven devices without specific consent to do so, a greedy cardiologist looking to get financial and professional advancement for calling him on it, and a worried university that wants to cover its behind. <br />I know nothing more about this case other than what the WSJ writes about, but it seems that this case doesn’t necessarily threaten advancement in biotechnology. There is nothing unethical about trying unproven treatments on patients (or taking treatments proven in one situation and applying them in another), as long as patients are made aware and consent, and if don’t consent, can opt for standard management. It seems that the surgeon’s mistake was to not adequately inform the patient (or at least not inform her in a manner that she won’t deny she ever knew). I agree that we benefit from experimentation/innovation, but the patient has to know and consent when there is deviation from the standard of care. <br />This business of the lawyer representing both the patient and the cardiologist doesn’t seem right either (not to mention the cardiologist’s perception that she somehow deserves compensation/protection for all this.) I don’t like to conjecture, but is seems like the cardiologist stumbled unto some probable unethical behavior by the surgeon and she decided to use the patient and this case for personal advancement (why else would a physician share a lawyer with a plaintiff/patient in a malpractice case?) I say that the surgeon’s behavior was probably unethical because the university and device company were also involved in, aware of, and consented to what the surgeon was doing, it is not clear that what he did was illegal, nor that what he did was any different than what is being done at university hospitals today. It also wasn’t like he was doing something completely different or novel, just a variation. In the end, the surgeon should have told the patient she was also a subject.<br /><br />Ernie GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-87632600923522843942009-12-25T07:30:24.340-05:002009-12-25T07:30:24.340-05:00nice article -- use the google backdoor to read ws...nice article -- use the google backdoor to read wsj articles (google the title of the article, the full text is linked in google). <br /><br />later,<br />radincradincnoreply@blogger.com