The good doctor has been interviewed for Fortune Magazine.
It's been reported by CNN.
Here's quote from the end of the interview:
"I had always waited for the chance to have an impact. And I kept my mouth shut. My ambition was to run a drug company someday - and run it my way.
This book is my last chance to change an industry filled with good people and good intentions."
An interesting point.
Insider has met many people "of good intentions" working within Big Pharma. They often say: "Well I have never had to do anything that was against my conscience!"
Yet the industry is what it is, and does what it does........
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is the old saying.
Any thoughts, please?
It's been reported by CNN.
Here's quote from the end of the interview:
"I had always waited for the chance to have an impact. And I kept my mouth shut. My ambition was to run a drug company someday - and run it my way.
This book is my last chance to change an industry filled with good people and good intentions."
An interesting point.
Insider has met many people "of good intentions" working within Big Pharma. They often say: "Well I have never had to do anything that was against my conscience!"
Yet the industry is what it is, and does what it does........
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is the old saying.
Any thoughts, please?
2 comments:
I've met many people in the industry or related research fields who have clearly good intentions. Part of maintaining those good intentions is ignoring or discounting evidence that suggests that some of your products don't work very well compared to a placebo or cause notable side effects. Another part of maintaining good intentions is to change focus to profit over all else. When profit is the #1 focus, then if all is well on the quarterly report, one can sidestep the other issues and still maintain a good night's sleep. Thirdly, and related to my first point, it probably helps to have little training in research -- that way, you can look at the bar graphs on the pharma rep-supplied chart and smile, thinking that drug is really darned impressive! Ignorance is bliss.
Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2006/06/merck-vioxx-complicity-theory.html
Good points. It could link with "complicity theory" quite well.
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