From Esther Pocock
The clinical trials of conventional medicine are notoriously unrepresentative
of the population as a whole. The fact that a drug works well on a healthy, male
medical student in his mid-twenties—the typical subject—does not
prove that it will be equally advantageous to, say, a post-menopausal woman or a
very young child. Such people may indeed be better served by referring to cases
similar to their own—even if this means considering first-person
accounts.
I wouldn’t leave my car to be repaired and then unquestioningly pay the bill
without showing the slightest interest in how it was fixed, so why should I
subject my body to powerful drugs without wondering how I might expect them to
affect me?
Sundsvall, Sweden
