[koboll]

>In order to get the data, we would have to intubate patients that did not need it. In this case, the people who approve these studies rightfully ruled that getting that data would be too painful for the patients to allow.

I wonder what the patients who died because they had especially fast-spreading infections whose pace was not detected quickly enough would think of these altruists' wise decision to weigh the median level of "emotional distress" more highly than their lives.

[louden]

People have commited suicide because of medical test results that turned out to be wrong. A decision has to be made about how many tests are performed and under what conditions. Unfortunately, that will cause harm to people no matter where we, as a society, draw that line.