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On the recordOctober 2, 2017
if your doctor comes to the decision that all reasonable conventional therapeutic efforts have been exhausted in trying to protect your life and is willing to state that, and if the patient is willing to forego any legal lawsuit claims against some of these new therapies, why wouldn't the FDA approve that?
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton questions FDA approval processes for new therapies after conventional treatments fail.

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