We bring you different perspectives from clinical trials participants. In this case, we have a study participant who has just gotten out of a bad experience with an inpatient study that he just participated in. The issue he has involves the lack of communication between the research clinic and himself in terms of clearly explaining the payment terms involved with his study participation. Whether you take sides with him or not is not the point, the key in this example is an obvious breakdown of communication between the research team and this individual. Furthermore, the breakdown in communication also caused this individual to be held against his will for a weekend in the inpatient unit, while the issue was being resolved. This obviously left a sour taste in his mouth, and a bad impression of the entire industry to this individual. Another interesting side note, the study participant wanted to complain to the IRB, but the IRB’s phone number was not listed on the form, instead there was only the IRB name, causing an extra inconvenience of googling the phone number of the IRB. The take home message is this: PLEASE MAINTAIN OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR STUDY PARTICIPANTS AT ALL TIMES, AND OBVIOUSLY DONT HOLD THEM IN A STUDY AGAINST THEIR WILL.