I worked on improved audio for one of my favorite episodes with Jessica Flanigan.
Ep. 4: Jessica Flanigan on Patients’ Rights vs. Medical Paternalism, the Ethics of Human Challenge Trials and Accelerating Medical Innovation
(To enjoy older episodes in greater quality, you may need to delete the cache of your podcasting platform, here is a guide on how to delete your cache in Spotify.)
The key insights are:
Public health suffers from status quo bias: we accept obvious injustices and don’t accept very easy and morally agreeable fixes (e.g. medical reciprocity laws)
The injustices are deep: there is an “invisible graveyard” of patients that seemingly die of diseases, but actually lacked access to a drug on-time
The ethics and economic efficiency of solutions human challenge trials are a massive improvement in every conceivable way over existing clinical trials
(Picture Credit: Compound VC)
These insights come in time for a couple of events I will organize in April:
April 9-11: New Jurisdictions for Longevity & Medical Innovation @Zuzalu / Montenegro
April 21-23: Supercharging Health 2023 - A Próspera Builders’ Summit @Roatan / Honduras
April 30 - May 1: New Cities & Network States @Zuzalu / Montenegro