Bureaucracy is apparently not pro-life

[brynndragon]

First, learn how an incredibly simple piece of organizational tech (so simple I hesitate to use the word "tech") means ICU staff spend less money to save more lives: The Checklist

Then, learn how the government decided we certainly can't let something this useful continue: A Lifesaving Checklist

Look, I'm a huge fan of ethics in research. I wish examining ethical issues with scientific research was a requirement for all science undergrads. But holding this research to the exact same standards as experimental drugs is a terrible mistake. We do need to be hella careful when dealing with the sickest of the sick, but you can take it too far and it looks like OHRP has. How many people will die of preventable infections before they figure out the standards this sort of research will require to satisfy Confucius' bastard child, bureaucracy?

Comments

Re: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

[c1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I obsess over that kind of thing for a living (just yesteday, in fact, I was debating the merits of importing XML as unicode v. ISO 8859-1), which is probably why I caught it. But more people know what an umlaut is (some, a heavy-metal umlaut) than a diacritical mark.
Nice catch.

Re: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Well, I used to be an expert. I sat on the relevant ANSI and ISO committees back in the day.