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What is the real cost of abandoning ethics in America?
Respect, beneficence, and justice must be universal or else they are meaningless.
I was listening to the news on August 29, 2019, when I heard the story of Maria Isabel Bueso and the demand letter she received ordering her to leave the United States by the middle of September or be deported.
I heard her doctor struggling to find a way to resolve this situation and save Isabel from what he called a “death sentence.”
When I learned of Isabel’s participation in a high-priority medical research study, I knew I had something to contribute based on my own experience. I hope that what I have to say here helps people understand how addressing the immigration status of these particular patients can be done legally, ethically, and with the greater public understanding that it is in the interest of the public good.
The (research) subject
Maria Isabel Bueso came to the United States from Guatemala when she was 7 years old, in…
