I was going to add that when I read clause 6, it does implicate the physician, pharmacist, or other health care practitioner as providing health care services, and that the person doing the medical and scientific research is in respect of the individual who is participating in the research. There is already a professional relationship there.
I guess I'd just like to remind the committee that, in addition to the college, as physicians we abide by the Hippocratic oath, which is to do no harm. Also, of course, our college regulations would insist on all of the other principles that we practise by every day, which include confidentiality and only doing things in the best interests of the patient. I think there is a lot of protection already in existence for those relationships.
Certainly, with medical research, there are a lot of protections with ethics boards and many safeguards that protect participants. In those cases, participants sign very clear consents that they understand what the research is about and what their role is. I think there are a lot of safeguards. I don't really agree with there being a lot of concern about that.