Level I safeguards Participation monitor: availability of an independent person to monitor the subject's involvement in the study, e.g., the subject's legal authorized representative.
Sharon and Arnold Dorsett, featured in "When Even Health Insurance Is No Safeguard," had no way to know that the seemingly common symptoms afflicting their son would require an expensive remedy to combat.
"When Even Health Insurance Is No Safeguard" ("Being a Patient" series, front page, Oct. 23) illustrates the sad reality of the American health care system and its high cost, financially and emotionally, to consumers.
The inhumane American reality is that even if you work hard, play by the rules and have private health insurance, out-of-pocket costs for a chronic condition too often will impoverish you ("When Even Health Insurance Is No Safeguard," "Being a Patient" series, front page, Oct. 23).
Is that safeguard enough?
The pledge includes lines like, "I will safeguard the interests of shareholders, co-workers, customers and the society in which we operate".
The pledge includes lines like, "I will safeguard the interests of shareholders, co-workers, customers and the society in which we operate". More than half the 2009 Harvard class signed on, and the oath has spread to other schools--although it carries little weight, since violating it incurs no penalty whatever.
I was safeguarding them but not for myself.
