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Woman has life changing brain implant forcibly repossessed after company goes bankrupt (www.technologyreview.com)

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Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The issue isn't the composition of the object but rather property and contract. The prosthetic limb comparison isn't bad in my opinion, except this would be an experimental prosthetic limb that patients agreed to test with full knowledge and consent that it could be removed without their permission.

Again, I would hate to be in that position, but if I agreed to it, I understand my legal options would be limited. Again, this isn't a company ruining someone's life over a little money, this is a corporation unable to continue operating. Again, please consider the fact that a corporation which can treat epilepsy went backrupt because it couldn't afford to do business in the regulatory environment of the health industry. I don't understand how adding more subjective laws with hand-waved economic foundations is supposed to help this situation.