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Medical Experiments
Nov. 2nd, 2012 10:52 amBack when I was a student, there was an organisation in town which carried out human tests on medical advances and a popular way of raising some more money after you'd spent your termly pittance on booze was to sign up to be experimented on. Kinda like being the human equivalent of a rabbit with shampoo in its eyes or a beagle with a fag on.
I never did it myself, but a couple of my friends did. Both described in painful detail the distressingly invasive physical examination they had to go through to sign up, and then they were put on different courses.
The first was testing a new flu treatment, which involved him getting the disease. It turned out he was on the placebo group so basically he was paid several hundred quid to have a stinking cold for a week or so, which didn't seem so bad. The second was less lucky. As part of tests on a new treatment, they gave him crabs.
This rather put a damper on his relationship with his girlfriend for a while.
Anyway, there was a persistent rumour that one thing you could sign up to was - for £10,000 - to have one of your toes amputated and then sewn back on as practice for microsurgery techniques. I've no idea if this was apocryphal or not - the older I get the more likely I reckon it was - but it was a subject of considerable debate after a few drinks in the SU bar. Would you do it? What if it went wrong? Which toe? How much would they have to offer to sever a finger, or other bits?
So, as it's Friday and none of you are doing any work, the question for today is: What medical experiments would you be willing to have performed on you, and how much would they have to offer?
I never did it myself, but a couple of my friends did. Both described in painful detail the distressingly invasive physical examination they had to go through to sign up, and then they were put on different courses.
The first was testing a new flu treatment, which involved him getting the disease. It turned out he was on the placebo group so basically he was paid several hundred quid to have a stinking cold for a week or so, which didn't seem so bad. The second was less lucky. As part of tests on a new treatment, they gave him crabs.
This rather put a damper on his relationship with his girlfriend for a while.
Anyway, there was a persistent rumour that one thing you could sign up to was - for £10,000 - to have one of your toes amputated and then sewn back on as practice for microsurgery techniques. I've no idea if this was apocryphal or not - the older I get the more likely I reckon it was - but it was a subject of considerable debate after a few drinks in the SU bar. Would you do it? What if it went wrong? Which toe? How much would they have to offer to sever a finger, or other bits?
So, as it's Friday and none of you are doing any work, the question for today is: What medical experiments would you be willing to have performed on you, and how much would they have to offer?
