This page contains links demonstrating that concerned individuals are finding ways to bypass medical bureaucracy and offer creative solutions for developing medical breakthroughs.
- This article is a good example of how individuals who are diagnosed with life threatening illnesses often find that they are going up against a system that hinders innovation.
Lab Rat?WSJ - I found this article to be enlightening and disturbing at the same time. I see this effort as a good first start to forcing medicine to become more responsive to patients and society. A little entrepreneurship and cooperation never hurt. What is disturbing is that with all the good ideas submitted, the doctors interviewed were skeptical that there could be any good ideas out there that doctors weren't already working on. I guess the guy slept through math class when they discussed Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. Or perhaps he feels that God made special exceptions for doctors that allow them to be all knowing and infallible. Perhaps the guy could check out this site for a few "New" ideas for medicine, like the ones that are in the process of revolutionizing it.
Will Sharing Ideas Advance Cancer Research?WSJ - This blog entry reviews an article discussing new legislation forcing researchers using public dollars to make their research available to the public.
