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Showing posts with label Death by Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death by Medicine. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Drug Rep on SURVIVOR: Merck told her to sell drugs that kill


Corinne Kaplan is a candidate on the American reality TV show Survivor.

At one point, Corinne insisted, “I have no moral compass.” The most damning illustration has to do with her (now former) job as a pharmaceutical sales rep, where she said she knowingly sold drugs to physicians that she knew would kill people. “Selling drugs is a lie. I sold drugs that I knew damn well—I sold Vioxx for Merck before it got taken off the market for killing people. I knew damn well it was dangerous; I went around telling them to write it. There’s a lot of serious lying I’ve done in my life,” she said.

That’s okay, Corinne told me, because “I’m doing a job. For me, in that case, Merck told me to go out and sell drug even though I had hesitation about it. It’s not for me to say. … Don’t listen to me. Read your fucking journals. Why the fuck are you listening to your rep? Just because I’m pretty? You think I know more about the drug? No.”

Likewise, for Corinne, being on Survivor Gabon “is work; I’m trying to make a million dollars. It really doesn’t matter. I hope everyone gets injured; I don’t care. Just not me.”

Hear Corinne talk about wanting the money, the type of person she is, her problems with production, and selling a drug she knew would kill people here.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Is Abilify Right for You?

Andy Behrman, a former spokesman for Abilify and Bristol Myers Squibb, discusses his side effects from Abilify, the "wonder drug" of Bristol Myers Squibb.
Many thanks to Electroboy - Andy Behrman - for making this information available and for saying it so that
others will speak out too....Video Link

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Seven-year old on antidepressants hangs himself


'Weeks before his death, Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old Broward boy who hanged himself in the shower of his foster home, had been prescribed a powerful mind-altering drug linked by federal regulators to an increased risk of suicide in children.'
Link
Please, let's stop these tragedies.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
- W.B. Yeats.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Psychology Today interviews Dr. David Healy

The interview is here.
A follow-up blog here got this response from us:
In the 1950's, an American TV show host shocked the nation and made everyone laugh by testing a product he advertised on his show. The host was, I think, Arthur Godfrey; the product was dog food.

We applaud the work of Dr. Healy and other physicians who ask hard questions, of Senator Grassley and the patient-consumer movement in exposing the ties between pharma and the mental health industry.

Exposing and cutting pharma perks might not be as effective as establishing - let's call it the Fido Rule: Anyone who writes assessments of drugs the pharmaceutical companies have on offer must *try* them.

Ready for your medicine, Dr. Ghaemi?

Little Puppy Pictures, Images and Photos

Monday, December 29, 2008

Drug Companies and Doctors: Marcia Angell


For two decades, Marcia Angell was the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Slowly and with reluctance she came to realize the corruption in Big Pharma, and has written extensively about it.

These two articles sum up many of the problems she found in the academic-industrial complex, and are essential reading for those in the health field - and those who use their services.
Jan. 2009:
Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption
A 2004 article, here
The Truth About Drug Companies

UPDATE: Get The Truth About Drug Companies immediately - e-download for a very reasonable cost
here

Friday, November 14, 2008

Smoked Out

The New York Times offers us a slideshow of the history of tobacco advertising in America, with babies, dentists, athletes and doctors - even Santa - urging us to smoke. Link

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Video - Money Talks: Profit Before Patient Safety



This 50-minute documentary was created to give an in-depth, academic perspective on the questionable marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry, and features the commentary of investigative journalists and medical professionals including Dr. John Abramson, author of Overdosed America, and Prescription Access Litigation Project Director, Alex Sugerman-Brozan. Other notable interviewees include Dr. Bob Goodman of Columbia University, founder of the 'No Free Lunch' program, and Dr. Jerome Hoffman of UCLA Medical School.




But these day may be numbered. Pharma may soon have to disclose its contacts. Read more here.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Botox: Brain Freeze

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Dorian Grey Department:
According to this article from the UK's Independent, Botox freezing can reach your grey matter.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Death By Medicine

"Death By Medicine"


This study was conducted between 2003/2004, so it's been around for a while. However, it is sometimes necessary to refresh our memories and also to introduce it to those who haven't seen it.
This study was done by Gary Null, PhD; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD, and Carolyn Dean, MD, ND. It is mind-boggling to say the least, the startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States . Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives. I suggest reading the entire study, including the foot notes before your next doctor's appointment or surgery.....

From the Abstract of the study;

A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.
  • The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million.

  • Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.

  • The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million.

  • The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.

  • The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936.

It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.


ANNUAL PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC COST OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION
Condition Deaths Cost
Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000 $12 billion
Medical error 98,000 $2 billion
Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion
Infection 88,000 $5 billion
Malnutrition 108,800 --------
Outpatients 199,000 $77 billion
Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion
Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion

TOTAL:

783,936 $282 billion


It's simply astounding, follow the link to read more of this study. Be healthy!