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in medicine we overwhelmingly use treatments which are safe and effective but there are still often uncertainties we often don't know which is the best of the currently available treatments so to give a concrete example of this statins are probably the most commonly prescribed treatment in the whole of the developed world tens of millions of patients take these treatments every day but we still don't know which is the best of the many different statin treatment regimes we need to do a randomized control trial we need to take a large group of people who are being offered a new treatment and give half of them one treatment half of them the other treatment and then follow them up to see how they're doing now at the moment because doctors don't have good quality evidence to guide them they will arbitrarily choose to give their patient one treatment or another and effectively this is what happens every day in medicine but if a doctor participates in a trial to formally compare one statin treatment regime against another then suddenly they have to have an extremely long conversation with the patient about the risks of the treatment that is way in excess of what they would do in the course of normally prescribing these drugs which you were going to get anyway they also have to go through a very long and in some cases quite intimidating legal document called the consent form by forcing doctors to go through a 20 minute long consent process by forcing patients to sign a seven page long legal document we make it a situation where these trials simply never get done and when we don't do these simple head-to-head comparisons to find out which is the best of the currently available treatments then we're left in the dark medicine doesn't move forward we don't improve healthcare and as a consequence patients suffer so in my view it would be much better if where there are trials which are clearly low-risk comparing to treatments which we know to be safe and effective patients could be asked to participate in them in a much more simple and straightforward way and then the conversation that your doctor has with you should be just the same as the conversation your doctor would have with you if they were prescribing in a normal clinical practice what we're talking about here was simplified consent is consenting to take part in what's effectively a trial but is actually a comparison between two tried and tested drugs but we're not absolutely sure which is the right drug under the circumstances for you and all we're asking you is to take the drug I'm going to prescribe and allow us to use the information that we collect about you in the future to go into a larger pool of information so we can analyze that and find out which drug really is best first of all this won't make any difference...