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Friday, November 29, 2002
Conservative to her death. Edie Bacon is dying of cancer and the only possible cure is a drug that's currently under trial in San Antonio; she lives in Boston. Johnson & Johnson, who is administering the test, won't allow her to have the drug in Boston because it could taint the study and make the FDA require them to do more testing.
Her response? To blame the FDA! All sympathy for a dying woman, but come on! When you're sick and dying, you sometimes have to go to where treatment is available. This woman wants her life to be more important than those of the people who would be saved when a study is done. She complains of the cost and fatigue associated with traveling so far twice a week...she's got to be kidding. When a family member is dying of something that has no known cure, the whole family picks up and moves when experimental treatment is available.
It seems like what's keeping Bacon back from life-saving treatment is more a family that leaves her to her own efforts, rather than the FDA. What a shame.
AS WELL, it's insensitive and gross for the WSJ to mislead this dying woman in validating her argument by printing it in their Op-Ed page. Shame on them.
Steven I. Weiss 2:15:00 PM
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