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Ethics, emotions, and meningococcaemia
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It is by no means a new problem but does it have an answer? You are faced with a child who is desperately ill and may well die. You have a new potential treatment that has not been submitted to a controlled trial but preliminary reports suggest it might appreciably reduce the risk of death or morbidity. Do you go ahead with random assignment to new treatment or placebo, or do you do what you almost certainly would do if it were your own child and …