Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:53:46 -0400
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ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)
Advancing Honest and Ethical Medical Research
www.ahrp.org
FYI and ACTION
I have just signed a petition urging Mark Dayton, Governor of Minnesota to appoint an independent, external panel of experts to conduct an investigation into gross medical research and clinical care misconduct by psychiatrists at the University of Minnesota who put their financial interests above the life of a patient in their care. http://chn.ge/13TtenX
Background:
In November 2003, a court ordered independent assessment
confirmed that Dan was
psychotic, “lacked capacity to make decisions regarding
neuroleptic medication.
” Instead of acute standard care at the
hospital, Dan was enrolled into a commercial, market promotion
drug trial by psychiatrists
at the University of Minnesota who coerced Dan with the threat
of involuntary
commitment—i.e, incarceration—to get him to agree to be a
subject in AstraZeneca's Seroquel trial.The psychiatrists and the University had significant financial interests in signing up patients as subjects.
Dan
was enrolled over the objections of his mother, Mary Weiss,
and his mental
condition quickly worsened into acute paranoid psychosis. For
months Mary tried desperately to get her only son out of the
dangerous experiment, warning the psychiatrists that Dan’s
condition was
deteriorating and that he was in danger of killing himself.
The psychiatrists, Dr. Stephen Olson and Dr. Charles Schulz, refused to listen to Mary Weiss' pleas to withdraw her only son from the trial that clearly endangered his life.
On May 8, 2004, Dan committed suicide by mutilating himself with a box cutter, so violently he nearly decapitated himself. http://markingson.blogspot.com/
The psychiatrists, Dr. Stephen Olson and Dr. Charles Schulz, refused to listen to Mary Weiss' pleas to withdraw her only son from the trial that clearly endangered his life.
On May 8, 2004, Dan committed suicide by mutilating himself with a box cutter, so violently he nearly decapitated himself. http://markingson.blogspot.com/
More recently, evidence of misconduct and serious privacy violations in psychiatric studies at the university have emerged, suggesting that other research subjects may have died or suffered serious injuries, or that they have been mistreated in other ways. Eight bioethicists at the University of Minnesota itself have called for an external investigation, yet the university still refuses.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49659724/U-of-M-Board-of-Regents-Markingson-Letter
Dan Markingson’s case has
garnered outrage from a growing list
of prominent physicians, bioethicists, health law specialists,
medical
humanities faculty, and concerned
citizens who have joined the call for an investigation by
signing the petition headed
by Jerome Kassirer, former editor of the New England Journal
of Medicine, and Peter
Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Center. See
partial list of petition signers
Please add your name and sign the petition urging the Governor of Minnesota to appoint an independent, external panel of experts to conduct an investigation into gross medical research and clinical care misconduct at the University of Minnesota. http://chn.ge/13TtenX
Vera Sharav
Great article! Thanks so much!!
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