this might hurt a little - chicago mag story on
Jun 22, 2018 11:56:34 GMT -5
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www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2018/This-Might-Hurt-a-Little/
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Stewart is similarly unconcerned about the risk. “Most people ask, ‘Aren’t you afraid?’ Apparently, I lack that gene to be cautious and sensible,” he quips. He, too, has had very few bad experiences. But there was that time at when a doctor struggled to get a tube down his nose and into his large intestine. “They had kind of a tricky time threading it through the stomach, so I was in there for 45 minutes while they were playing with the tube, trying to get it right,” he recalls. He says the clinic didn’t adequately warn him about the pain that would be involved. So he wrote a complaint—and has never since been selected for an study.
Participants are not always forthcoming about adverse reactions for fear of getting booted from a study—and losing out on a payday.
Participants are not always forthcoming about adverse reactions, Stewart says, for fear of getting booted from a study. (He got kicked out of one recently after developing a rash—not because of the test drug, he thinks, but because of a cheap detergent he’d used. And he’s not happy about it. “It cost me $1,000.”) “You can get banned at any time, for any reason,” he says. “So if someone is experiencing a side effect, they are not going to run and tell the doctor. It’s bad science and bad policy—and defeats the whole purpose.”
good profile of paul. mentions this site. also,
Stewart is similarly unconcerned about the risk. “Most people ask, ‘Aren’t you afraid?’ Apparently, I lack that gene to be cautious and sensible,” he quips. He, too, has had very few bad experiences. But there was that time at when a doctor struggled to get a tube down his nose and into his large intestine. “They had kind of a tricky time threading it through the stomach, so I was in there for 45 minutes while they were playing with the tube, trying to get it right,” he recalls. He says the clinic didn’t adequately warn him about the pain that would be involved. So he wrote a complaint—and has never since been selected for an study.
Participants are not always forthcoming about adverse reactions for fear of getting booted from a study—and losing out on a payday.
Participants are not always forthcoming about adverse reactions, Stewart says, for fear of getting booted from a study. (He got kicked out of one recently after developing a rash—not because of the test drug, he thinks, but because of a cheap detergent he’d used. And he’s not happy about it. “It cost me $1,000.”) “You can get banned at any time, for any reason,” he says. “So if someone is experiencing a side effect, they are not going to run and tell the doctor. It’s bad science and bad policy—and defeats the whole purpose.”
