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Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda
by
Jacky Law
Last year, the pharmaceutical industry had sales in excess of $300 billion. Clearly, we all pay in one way or another — whether by buying drugs directly or through taxation. But it is less clear if we are getting value for our money. Author Jacky Law shows how a small number of corporations have come to dominate the global healthcare agenda. She reveals a system in which t...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
February 26th 2006
by Basic Books
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Have read tons on big pharma and their illicit practices. The detailers (or drug reps) are chosen for their looks first - college cheerleaders are often approached. Their job is to document what types of inducements influence doctors. They already know their prescribing habits because chain pharmacies supply the reports, and the numbers used to theoretically protect doctors' anonymity are undone by the report pharma buys from the American Medical Association.
Medical journals are largely controll...more
Medical journals are largely controll...more
as big pharma companies say:
there are two things you can do wrong to patients- you either kill them or you cure them...
The penetration by Pharma of all spheres of healthcare is devious and disturbing. Big boys quitely owing it/us all.
Inventing diseases is pretty sick as well...the author mentions the nonexistent over-reactive bladder syndrom that is profitably promoted via media.
It owuld have been nice if the author mentions the Swine flu scam in the next editions.
Just think of the scandal at W...more
there are two things you can do wrong to patients- you either kill them or you cure them...
The penetration by Pharma of all spheres of healthcare is devious and disturbing. Big boys quitely owing it/us all.
Inventing diseases is pretty sick as well...the author mentions the nonexistent over-reactive bladder syndrom that is profitably promoted via media.
It owuld have been nice if the author mentions the Swine flu scam in the next editions.
Just think of the scandal at W...more
yeash. What have we gotten ourselves into? In making pharma a business, we seem to have turned loose the matrix without any central computer. Now we get treated instead of cured, and medicine is made for those that can pay for it rather than those that need it. Kinda scary.
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