(AGENPARL) – STANFORD (CA) ven 09 giugno 2023

From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs—And How We Can Fix It

Rivertowns Books, 2023

Summary: From Oversight to Overkill focuses on how medical research is too often thwarted by a review system that is supposed to safeguard patients, but instead creates needless delays and expense. Institutional Review Boards, which exist at every hospital and medical school that conducts medical research, have ended up imposing such complex, draconian conditions that research is frequently damaged, delayed, and distorted, argues Simon Whitney, an MD/JD and former fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. “Medical miracles” like the COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed at warp speed, are far too rare, he writes. Instead, medical research in countless areas is kept at a horse-and-buggy pace. The result: unnecessary suffering and avoidable deaths. Readers will learn how vital breakthroughs in treating conditions from kidney stones to heart attacks and premature birth have been delayed by red tape, forcing doctors and patients to settle for less-effective treatments.

Praise: “Simon Whitney reveals a scandal that every scientist knows but none has mustered the courage to oppose: Lifesaving research in the U.S. is crippled by a mindless, Kafkaesque bureaucracy dedicated not to protecting patients but to covering its derrière and expanding its fiefdom. From Oversight to Overkill would be a whiz-bang book even if it just blew the whistle on this outrage, but it’s also as entertaining as any medical bestseller, enlivened with unforgettable stories and vigorous, witty prose.” —Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now and Rationality

“Making the urgent case that oversight done wrong limits crucial, sometimes life-saving options for patients and doctors, Whitney calls for a new approach to how institutional review operates for medical research involving human subjects in the U.S. … a cogent stylist and persuasive constructor of arguments, [he offers] a convincing argument for reform to better serve patients and society.” —Publishers Weekly BookLife (Editor’s Pick)

“A carefully reasoned and disturbing portrait of potential hazards of excessive regulation.” —Kirkus Reviews

Fonte/Source: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/in-print-dr-simon-whitney-jd-98/