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What\u2019s more, the FDA can\u2019t know whether all clinical investigators have submitted financial disclosure statements, because <strong>the agency never gets a complete list of all clinical investigators (!!!).<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Emphasis and !!! added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more, but that&#8217;s enough to raise a really important issue about healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n<p>I think one central question for the e-patient movement in 2009 will be: What is the nature of &#8220;reliable information&#8221;? We were raised to trust medical journals and the randomized clinical trials that feed them. If that process is unreliable, no wonder many patients (including me) have found that the best information came from the patient community.<\/p>\n<p>N.B.: It ain&#8217;t just patients who may be getting misled by this apparently misguided trust. 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