One criticism I could think, if the experimentation has side-effects, the consequences could be catastrophic. Might be best to save that for time out of office.
This logic doesn't hold up. Should members of congress also get preferential access to experimental treatments? What about governors? We should not give any preferential access based on the status or public office of the patient.
If the president, as a citizen, requests an experimental treatment for compassionate use, that should be considered the same as anyone else.
The difference here is that the president would clearly be abusing his office to get the treatment, and this should be disclosed in his medical evaluations.
It's the US President, not just a "random citizen", random citizens abuse the system all the time, literally all the time and they do illegal things as well, I won't say everyone but realistically large majority of people do illegal things or try to shortcut, cheat, buy illegal drugs, import illegal materials and so-on. Celebrities do it all the time as well, but also the average daddy. Also corruption for our own families happen all the time (preferential treatment).
I think also many other people than the president should have preferential treatment when it comes to certain things.
I'm not from the US but to me it seems just normal to not compare a rando with the president, especially if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
If it's true, then it indicates the reports presented about Trump's health are false, or at least misleading. The patient has conditions that Trump has not been reported to have, and has been treated with medications that Trump has not been reported to be receiving. That'd be one of the major issues with this, again, if it's true.
> a single person has been granted early access through the expanded access, aka “compassionate use” pathway, which is typically used to grant access to patients with a “serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition” and who are not able to enroll in a clinical trial, often because they are too ill.
He may have medical conditions that have not been disclosed, but it does not seem like he is seriously ill or in a situation of imminent death, so this would appear to be an abuse of the system.
The article seems to imply there is something wrong with this but if the US president want early access to drugs, he/she should be able to, why not?
One criticism I could think, if the experimentation has side-effects, the consequences could be catastrophic. Might be best to save that for time out of office.
This logic doesn't hold up. Should members of congress also get preferential access to experimental treatments? What about governors? We should not give any preferential access based on the status or public office of the patient.
If the president, as a citizen, requests an experimental treatment for compassionate use, that should be considered the same as anyone else.
The difference here is that the president would clearly be abusing his office to get the treatment, and this should be disclosed in his medical evaluations.
It's the US President, not just a "random citizen", random citizens abuse the system all the time, literally all the time and they do illegal things as well, I won't say everyone but realistically large majority of people do illegal things or try to shortcut, cheat, buy illegal drugs, import illegal materials and so-on. Celebrities do it all the time as well, but also the average daddy. Also corruption for our own families happen all the time (preferential treatment).
I think also many other people than the president should have preferential treatment when it comes to certain things.
I'm not from the US but to me it seems just normal to not compare a rando with the president, especially if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
If it's true, then it indicates the reports presented about Trump's health are false, or at least misleading. The patient has conditions that Trump has not been reported to have, and has been treated with medications that Trump has not been reported to be receiving. That'd be one of the major issues with this, again, if it's true.
> a single person has been granted early access through the expanded access, aka “compassionate use” pathway, which is typically used to grant access to patients with a “serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition” and who are not able to enroll in a clinical trial, often because they are too ill.
He may have medical conditions that have not been disclosed, but it does not seem like he is seriously ill or in a situation of imminent death, so this would appear to be an abuse of the system.