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To the Editor: We are interested in the solution proposed by Marquis (Aug. 26 issue)¹ to the ethical dilemma posed by conflicting obligations to provide patients with a treatment recommendation and to invite them to join a randomized clinical trial. The solution offered is to regard the clinical trial as yet another treatment option, one to be offered to patients within the context of the ethical process of obtaining informed consent to treatment.

Our own data support this approach. We have analyzed 26 audiotaped consultations in which informed consent to a clinical trial was sought. In consultation with ethicists, linguists, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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