The honorarium and coverage of expenses really helped Maxime to be involved
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Well, not only were they super-accommodating with the schedule but they also kept us fed and gave us a bit of a per diem — not a per diem, sorry; they gave a bit of like an honorarium. And so for the honorarium we got — yeah we received an honorarium which sort of made up for, not lost time, it made up for — it valued our contributions for sure, but we were also adequately fed and we were also provided transportation to and from wherever we needed to be. So that really helped. Those were some of like the barriers that other patient advisors tend to have maybe, depending on the funding of the project and whatnot, but thankfully with this project, they took us into consideration and treated us right.
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