Dispensing with the Truth Quotes

“Judge Brassard, they decided, would be played by Alan Alda, the sensitive guy.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“Shortly after he got back to his office from his Today show segment, Rich received a call from a furious Marc Deitch. “It was frightening,” Rich acknowledged later, declining to discuss what was said to him.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“About eighteen million prescriptions were written for Fen-Phen that year, and doctors around the country estimated that almost seven million people were taking the drugs.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“By the time of Redux’s first shipment to pharmacy shelves in May, PPH numbers were rising rapidly.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“Pondimin and Redux were both withdrawn from the market, “voluntarily,” according to Wyeth’s press statement.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“Judge Raymond J. Brassard was a Republican appointee and not considered particularly favorable to plaintiffs’ attorneys.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“Where the hell did this come from? Alex flipped through a Pondimin package insert he had found in another box and saw the last line: Revised June 20, 1996. A similar warning for Redux, a nearly identical drug, was dated April 29, 1996.”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

“What did the companies know about the link between PPH and their drugs, and when did they know it?”
― Alicia Mundy, Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen