The Machine Age

For today's class we focused on chapter 14 in teh medical aparhied book. one of the questions asked in class today that i thought was very interesting was if we felt that giving consent and not being told everything about an experiment was worse or better then not giving consent at all and still haveing an experiment done to you. I feel like giving someone consent to examine you and not being told all the details about that experimentation is alot worse then not giving consent at all. while i still think that not giving consent and still having it be done to you is bad but giving someone consent is worse. the reason that i think this is because you are now allowing you to have someone cut you open or take anything out of your body and they will get away with it because you did consent. i feel like if doctors want something from your body they should have to disclose everything about what they are doing with it before someone consents to what they feel like is being done. there was also another question about using artificial blood. i think that unless it is an emergancy and someone needed blood right away that we should not be using artificial blood in people especially without their knowledge of this occuring because this is something that is still farily knew and we do not yet no the long term issues and complications that could occur from using this kind of blood.