ETHICAL TO TEST PATIENTS WITHOUT THEIR KNOWING CONSENT? ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS TARGETED FOR MEDICAL IMPLANT EXPERIMENT
Will you let them use your loved ones as a guinea pig? According to the pressure in this new burgeoning society of ours, it is acceptable to let an individual suffer for the good as a whole.
On February 22, 2007, the VeriChip Corporation and Alzheimer's Community Care, Inc. announced their plan to conduct a medical study involving the implantation of 200 Alzheimer's patients with a VeriChip microchip implant. The device will be injected into the patients' flesh for a two-year experiment to study the effectiveness and safety of the implants.
Alzheimer's Community Care officials have indicated that the microchip implantation could begin as soon as May.
Medical experimentation on Alzheimer's patients raises profound issues of informed consent. We strongly believe that cognitively impaired individuals should not be used in medical experimentation of this type.
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