The ethics of enrolling terminally ill patients in clinical trials

This article, however, makes me wonder. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37311038 Paolo Macchiarini: A surgeon’s downfall In July 2011, the world was told about a sensational medical breakthrough that had taken place in Stockholm, Sweden. The Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini had performed the world's first synthetic organ transplant, replacing a patient's trachea, or windpipe, with a plastic tube....Click to expand... The ethics of enrolling terminally ill patients in clinical trials
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