Experience: I ran a medical trial that went wrong

The men tumbled like dominoes. One man tried to walk to the toilet and collapsed. The wards became chaotic

As a medical student, I volunteered for lots of drug trials to make extra money. I sold my blood, my sperm - I did them all. You're more likely to get hurt on the way to the trial unit than as a participant. After I graduated, I worked as a junior doctor in hospitals before joining a private drugs company that ran trials. I was promoted to principal investigator, the doctor in charge.

I had been involved in more than 300 trials by March 2006 when I was put in charge of testing a new drug in the private wing of Northwick Park hospital in north London.

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