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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2775)	12/7/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: PDavid	Respond to of 3702

Shero and Maurice, etc. First, Shero, I apologize. You are right, I took your first post personally. Actually, I was just expressing my discontent about the money issue and obviously took it personally, where no such intent was meant on your part. I apologize for having ridiculed you. Second, Maurice and Shero, I was not FDA knowledgeable until the NJ meeting in June. I had the privilege of eating dinner with Jamie Oliver, who gave me an excellent, AND DISHEARTENING, education of the FDA guidelines, etc. I walked away with the same sentiments you both expressed. Its disgraceful that people are dying simply because of the FDA. And then, the dagger, is the "fast track". Did you know that still means approx. 5 years? Of course, exceptions take that number down, but that is brutality in its finest form. Regards, Phil

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2775)	12/7/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: The Dodgy Ticker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3702

Maurice/Shero, The FDA, while bureaucratic, is in a no-win situation: If they don't approve a drug before side-effects are known, they lose, because someone, a cancer victim perhaps, might be saved. If they do approve a drug; e.g. Viagra, Rituxan, which turns out to have side-effects that seriously harm or kill some people, they also lose. To me, our real problem is the loss of individual responsibility we citizens have undergone. As soon as something bad happens to us, instead of saying that's the breaks of life, we sue; e.g. all the tobacco victims who want subsidized aid for the result of their own decisions; e.g., the people who build houses and hotels on ocean beaches who want subsidized insurance against hurricane damage (i.e., they want someone else to bear the cost of their mistakes). Bottom line: We've brought this all onto ourselves.