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Volume 344:1018-1019 March 29, 2001 Number 13
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To Protect Those Who Serve

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To the Editor: Drazen and Koski (Nov. 30 issue)1 argue persuasively that research institutions should adopt a uniform policy regarding financial conflicts of interest in order to protect the integrity of clinical research. In articulating their case for such a policy, however, they make unrealistic pronouncements about the ethical responsibility of investigators, including that "it is the investigator who must always act in the subject's best interests" and that "clinical investigators must be primarily interested in protecting the welfare of the brave and unselfish persons who agree to serve as the subjects of our research."

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