Fantastic Wired article on drug testing in India

[GilbertDaddy]

With the nurse glasses on, this is a hard read. Could you imagine the quality of care you would NOT be able to give in a foreign land like this? Especially when folks (and hospitals) are selling their souls for the money and/or possible help from test drugs. The movie The Constant Gardener touched on this and was a fantastic movie.

Read this quote a few times...

Kalantri talked the matter over with the chair of the hospital's ethics committee, and the two concluded that the trial drug itself, with its possible side effects and limited efficacy, would provide little benefit to their patients. Then they went ahead and signed up.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/indiadrug.html