Will you be the first one.

I was in a lecture today on some new techniques of graft implantation on spinal cord. It was really an important issue with older people and boy it is some complicated stuff. But the question that kept on lingering in my mind the whole time was not exactly related to this. I might be a little bit guilty of not completely listening to the presentaion, but heck whats life without any guilt. Coming to the point, people talking about new surgical methods, new pills, new medicine, I mean they must have tried those on all the animals they can get hold off. Agreed, but how to convince the first person to fall for it. You don't want to the first person on which some medicine is tried. Ya Ya, the FDA bullshit. But tell me one thing does the FDA accept anything without real life experiments not bovine-real. So the option left with the doctors is to try on themselves. Thats a easy thing to do for medicines, but for surgical procedures. Thats some ugly shit. Or they try it out on their relatives. There are advantages for not related to the doctor also. But on a different prospective I feel there would be a pool of volunteer ready to get their body cut open and the surgeons playing with his body parts. All for the advancement of science. Another idea is to ask the guys on death sentence to sign up for these experimentation. It would be win-win situation for them.
Another question I always had, do the doctors go to another if they fall ill? The question is more crutial and intriguing in another profession - hair cutting. Enough crap for today.