Merilyn - Interview 41  

Merilyn - Interview 41

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Female
Background: Merilyn is a cleaner. She is married with 3 adult children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Merilyn took part in a randomised trial of different procedures for carrying out a heart bypass operation. She was in the group which had the new procedure.

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Being in a trial is a personal decision, but Merilyn encourages people to consider it. Medicine can only make progress if people volunteer.

 



A trial is a very personal thing, I think. Some people would be quite positive like me, and would think, “Yeah, it’s going to be good for me, it’s going to be good for others.” Other people might be a bit dubious whether to go into that sort of thing. But I think if you sit back and think about it, that medicine has made such a progress over the years, and it’s only because the likes of people doing clinical trials, drug trials. You’ve got to practice on somebody, you’ve got to find these results from somebody, and the only way they can do it is to do these trials, so it can only be for the good of yourself and for other people.

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