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US president may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug — Public notice of a single “compassionate use” case is odd in every way (arstechnica.com)
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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I mean the compassionate use thing on its own is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a way to provide patients who are terminally ill with no other options the chance to try a drug that hasn’t been approved.

This use case in the other hand is bizarre and abnormal