Examining Tuskegee Part II Response

In reading part two of "Examining Tuskegee", I noticed early on in the section just how poorly the whole study was conducted and the results were observed. I remember as a class discussing this idea a bit on the study itself and how awfully it was run. Although then we were not too sure of the details exactly I feel as if a lot of them are revealed in this section and we can get a better look into the study's structure. One of the biggest surprises in the structure of the study, was how some subjects categories were switched in the study from control to syphilitic (117). Today that sort of act would never be allowed in a study of any kind no matter the importance. It is really against the law of science. And what made it worse is that the switching only went one way, meaning subjects who were suspected of having syphilis were moved to a syphilitic group but subjects in the syphilitic group who did not show any symptoms could not be moved to the control group (117). Another quote that stood out was also on page 117 and that was" even with all the autopsies done, medical records, death certificates, published articles, and stories from families, we still can never be sure just how many men died from syphilis directly or just with syphilis." If this study was so important to the studiers and they fought so hard to keep it running, how could you not know at all the amount of people that have died because of your study? I also found interesting how the medical records of over 600 men that contained private information, vital data, and even their secrets was just available  to be read by anyone (112). The health industry today is completely crazy with patient confidentiality and the laws protecting it. Physicians and other medical professionals can lose their jobs if even a tiny bit of a patient information is said basically ruining their careers. What amazes me is this study occurred less than 100 years ago. In reality it did not happen that long ago at all and yet we as a medical community has come so far. But then the question arises is that how could this type of study and all the problems it had structurally and caused was allowed to begin with and allowed to go on for so long?