Author: Vijay Singh
Position: Doctor; government job
Institution: CCRH
E-mail: drvpsingh2004@hotmail.com
Submitted Date: September 01, 2005
Published Date: September 12, 2005
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Nothing surprising here about clinical trials. They continue to be as inclonclusive as they were in the last century. We need to realize that, where human beings are involved as research subjects and as investigators, there is every possibility of false perception, judgmental error and individual's own interest, which may be anything from fame to money. No wonder that recently there was a headline suggesting the most drugs do not do what they are meant to do. On the contrary some of them do just opposite. The practice of medicine is, as well as a science, an art. The same drug brings about different changes when prescribed by different physicians.