Question: But Pfizer has paid billions in fines for illegal, off-label marketing [prodding doctors to prescribe drugs for uses that were not approved by the FDA]. Don't these fines feed the perceptions that the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies are prescribing us medicine that we don't need?
Answer: People make mistakes. We've been fined. And we're making reparations for those mistakes. But they're really, really isolated. You have to understand that the vast majority of the people who work in the industry are doing it for all the right reasons. ... But yes, it absolutely, positively fuels that stuff you read on the Internet. But like so many things, it's blown way, way, way out of proportion.
via post-gazette.com
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All those deaths caused by our really really unsafe and illegally marketed drugs were way way way not so dead...
It's this kind of contempt for public safety that makes you feel that there is an absolute need for independent regulation of the industry and yet bigger fines until they understand
I would agree that people are prescribed way too many drugs, but at some point the individual person has to take responsibility by making choices for themselves. These choices include being well informed and making wise life style changes. Having said that, one would expect that the medical doctors provide educated and compassionate advice.
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