Posted by med_empowered on October 23, 2005, at 10:35:21 [reposted on October 23, 2005, at 23:14:29 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Are we all under the Big Pharma spell?, posted by linkadge on October 23, 2005, at 9:45:04
Yeah...I'm not so big on Big Pharma either. I don't know if we're headed towards a "Brave New World" yet (I think the drugs would have to **WORK** and be **PLEASANT** for that to happen), but the situation certainly isn't that great. did you know that the US, with only 250 some odd million people, out of the world's 6 billion , accounts for 1/3 of the pharmaceutical industry's overall profit? 33%!! Meanwhile, docs litter their offices with drug-industry propaganda, attend free lunches, get gifts, and even have their research bought (whoops...I mean "supported") by the drug companies. Its ridiculous.
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