Comment by lr4444lr
3 years ago
The FDA could create a standard consent form for nonapproved treatment that patients and doctors would sign, which would indemnify the physician from legal repercussions, but they don't, and they bear full blame for that. The AMA would still have its own regulations about the limits of ethical experimentation, with the revocation of a medical license as punishment to serious offenders, and malpractice safeguards could still be there. State laws about gross medical negligence are also an option.
You can get get experimental drugs/treatments that aren’t approved by getting them under the clinical trial for that drug. The question is who pays for it? Cancer treatments are millions of dollars.
Clinical trials are, I think always, free for the patient. The company developing the drug foots the bill.
That’s just not true.
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This can cause all doctors to require it, and this has happened across industries, for example, software and internet platform "terms of service". It is a very bad idea.