According to the court summary, the full transcripts will be released at a later date. They have to be anonymized prior to release.
Even without direct sworn testimony from Hirano, I would suspect a financial motive because of the sum Charlie’s parents raised through GoFundMe, that Hirano stood to gain if they would have carried through with their plan to come to the US for “treatment.” One and a half million dollars is a LOT to a researcher, who typically is scrambling for funding.
Hirano’s public claims that he is not motivated by money sound very self-serving to me. In the UK, people have attributed his motives entirely to greed, and in fact are saying that the US is an amoral country because a doctor will treat anyone with anything as long as they get the money. Clearly, they do not know anything of American regulations regarding patient care and research on human subjects. Dr. Hirano is *not* representative of American doctors, either MDs or PhDs—most of us, although always scrambling for money, would never subject a patient to an untested chemical mixture, regardless of how it behaved in early drug development. In the US, a few people (like me) are also questioning Hirano’s motives, and I think more people will question them as the emotional firestorm dies down.
yes hospitals/doctors/nursing staff are expensive without experimental drugs. i find your suspicions a bit overdrawn. i see they are being drummed up in Br tabloids. we shall see.