Health committee  Nobody on the panel openly discussed their medical status. The people who I--

Health committee  They were people who worked with patients. Whether they had personal experience as a patient was not discussed at the panel.

Health committee  My understanding of the task that we were charged with was not that we were to recommend that they be approved or not. The answer to that question would come from the consultative process for those people in positions to make the decisions.

Health committee  If I can just add--and then maybe Dr. Brown can add as well--that again, I understood my role was not to draw the conclusions of what that might mean. We were to assess what was in front of us, answer very specific questions, and the decision as to what that meant would be determ

Health committee  I was a panel member, and I would stand by these comments. But again, what they mean, what that means related to risk, and what it means related to harm and benefit needs to be determined perhaps by others. Every device will have uncertainties around it, questions that aren't ful

Health committee  What page is that on?

Health committee  So your question to me is whether, based on that, we would not recommend that they approve it?

Health committee  Thank you for this opportunity to present a few brief remarks on the process I experienced, witnessed, and participated in as a panel member; on my role as an ethicist; and on some key ethical considerations related to breast implants. I was a member of both the scientific advis