I’d like to complement dozens of previous reviews from happy reviewers by addressing Linear team and future volunteers.Liner Team:Guys, you’re literally the best! I’m a middle age... professional who worked in various industries. What I saw and experienced, while doing a number of trials with your team, is that the synergy, the coherence, the friendliness, professionalism, respect and easy-going environment make your team unique – a family! Believe me, there are not many teams out there that are like yours and a significant number of companies are actively investing and trying to create the team environment you already have in place. Please nurture it. This is what makes us – patients – to return, not the monetary reward we get, not the food or quite time, but the spirit of your amazing team!Future volunteers:For those of you who are contemplating whether to participate in one of the trials or not, let me tell you something. Clinical Trial, by its nature, is an experiment. You might be surprised, but we all experiment on our bodies without even noticing this! There is a difference between running an experiment ‘blindly’ (smoking, alcohol consumption, eating new unfamiliar food or driving sleep deprived) – uncontrolled, completely unaware, or perhaps aware, but without medical assistance at hand; and running an experiment ‘cautiously’ in a controlled, structured and methodical way when multiple independent medical professionals and Australian Human Research Ethics Committee (if I recall correctly) assess the process, safety, risks and are ready to help should it be required. Linear trials are the world class ‘cautious’ experiments, as I call them. When I say World Class – I mean, literally, they are one of the best clinical research facilities in the world. I was a bit worried when participated in my first trial, but what I went through completely vanished my concerns.First, they do comprehensive initial screening to make sure a participant will not have ANY possible side effects from the trial. And this is the best part, to me at least: I get FREE and SCRUPULOUS professional medical assessment! We all know that prevention is the best cure. Well, this is when Linear doctors could notice some issues that do not yet manifest themselves and when they eventually do, it might be too late (e.g. pre-diabetes, HIV, Hep B, platelets, ECG abnormalities, etc). So it is of a great benefit to find any abnormalities early in order to address them before severe or acute symptoms force us to go to a GP.Then, if medical assessment is deem acceptable, you are provided with a Consent Form, where the trial is described in a great detail and all previous scientific evidence pertaining to this trial are presented and explained, including animal and human trials. During one-on-one conversation you could ask Linear licensed physician all the questions you might have regarding the trial. This is where I go wild and shoot all the ‘stupid’ questions I come up with! They answer all :-) If for some reasons you don’t like what you hear, you can always withdraw. And this is another great benefit of such trials: you ALWAYS could withdraw if for whatever reason you don’t like it.During the trial, it may get a bit too busy, but the team manages this very well. And they care after patients like mum cares after her child! Seriously! You’ll be well looked after while there. When trial is completed, there are normally follow up visits during which doctors and nurses do complete follow up examination. They even pay attention to the minor scratches I normally don’t even notice! You’ll get your compensation after the completion of the trial. And a months later you’ll start thinking to apply for another one :-) I promise you’ll do!I hope this was helpful. It might seem somewhat too long, but I through it was worth the effort to go through this in more details. I have no affiliation with Linear nor any of its nurses or doctors. This is an honest and personal review I believe the Linear team deserves and future volunteers would be interested to read.read more
