Nicola / England 
Would you volunteer for medical experiments?
Hello, my name is Nicola and I'm from England. And my question is, would you volunteer for medical experiments?
It's a very good question, indeed. I'm not sure that I would, actually. I don't think that I would volunteer. However, having said that, if I was in a situation where I was quite ill and the treatment that I'd been given hadn't worked, and I had a last resort to volunteer for this new experiment, this new drug, should I say, to volunteer in the experiment, as a last resort, I probably would try . So I probably would try that
But volunteering just for the sake of volunteering, I can honestly say that I wouldn't do that. I don't really like modern medicine anyway. So for me it would be going against my own personal beliefs. So you tell me, would you volunteer for a medical experiment?
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last resort | final option
for the sake of | only for the purpose of
quite ill | very sick
going against | opposite
treatment | medical care
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