Getting (a) Shot for Science
About ten years ago, I decided I could be a more effective research administrator if I experienced another side of the clinical trial process. I had been negotiating contracts and budgets, paying subjects for their travel, and approving incentive payments for a while, but I thought if I enrolled as a research subject in a clinal trial myself, then I would learn something and get paid for doing it. Oh, and I’d help further research and our mission of improving child health, too. I signed up as a ‘healthy subject’ for an experimental pneumonia vaccine. It truly did help me see the other side of informed consent, interactions ...