Bill Lindy posted a similar article on the thread about vitamins herb supplements etc.
But we all need to keep this in mind when receiving prescriptions for medications. Do we need this RX. When I sit in the waiting room at Dr.'s offices I see the drug reps coming and going. They treat the staff to lunches and do everything they can to ingratiate... WHY ?
To Lose Trust, Every Day
by Arnold S. Relman
Post date 07.24.07 | Issue date 07.23.07
Last year, when the board of directors of Pfizer, Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical company, named Jeffrey B. Kindler to be the company's CEO, he was quoted in a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal as saying, "We will transform virtually every aspect of how we do business, focusing on actions that create and sustain value for our shareholders." Kindler, a lawyer by training, had recently joined Pfizer as general counsel after serving as chairman and CEO of Boston Market and president of Partner Brands, both subsidiaries of McDonald's, the giant fast-food chain. Like most current CEOs of big pharmaceutical firms, he came to his position with little or no training in basic science, medicine, or clinical pharmacology. His expertise was in law and business. His statement about focusing on the interests of Pfizer's shareholders was probably a response to the board's concern about the five-year-long slide in the company's stock price and the recent slowing in the growth of its profits, but it was also fully in keeping with the expected responsibilities of corporate management. After all, as Milton Friedman once observed, "Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible." ...
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