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The physician who enlists a patient in a randomized clinical trial a potential conflict between his obligations to the patient and his to promote scientific knowledge. Ethical dilemmas are analyzed as arise from the need to sacrifice individualized treatment and to withhold about the physician's intuitive treatment preferences. It is held be unethical to solicit consent from a prospective subject without him that his treatment will be randomly selected. (KIE)
Arthur Schafer (Thu,) studied this question.