Human Genetics in Hungary

Abstract

to be valuable, and since paying even a small price for all of them may simply be a waste of money, perhaps most reasonable thing to do is to provide that compensation shall be paid based on a standard fee schedule (e.g., 1 percent of gross sales), payment to be made either to individual or to a nonprofit cell-line storage facility, election to be made by patient at time of consent to removal, and ratified at time commercial value is determined. This or some similar scheme will have to be adopted if we want to prevent physicians and researchers from being seen as simply opportunistic profit seekers. The law cannot remedy every heartache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, but it can serve quite adequately to craft reasonable commercial agreements that protect against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and are fair to all parties. References