Green | June 22, 2008 | 10 comments

Investigation into relationships between pharmaceutical industry, FDA & medical schools

source: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2502546838698762400&q=graham+fda&ei=8TNeSPeVA4KwrAL...

CarolynGillis
Takes a look at why patented drugs are so readily prescribed by doctors, the role insurance companies and HMO's play in promoting compliance, and the problem of rising health care costs. An in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their health care.

One and a half hour show...grab your iced tea and sit back : )
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10 comments // Investigation into relationships between pharmaceutical industry, FDA & medical schools // Video

  • Amber_LaStrega
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • Thanks for the post Carolyn! Wow! Watched the whole video. Sure pause here and there a bit. I find it a very good documentary. They should make a short version for News or TV pod version.

    • 3 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
  • Kati_kat
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      Kati_kat  

    • The whole industry is product driven. When pharm. and health care is the #1 money-earning industry in the nation, you really have to wonder about our priorities...

    • 3 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • This apple is rotten from the core out. The next administration has to appoint someone to clean it up. I'd like to see Dr. Graham head that effort. Let's get drug advertising off TV. That in it's self is dangerous. My God we won't allow beer commercials on television, but we get to hear about four hour erections everyday. Give me the Hamms Bear instead. I avoid drugs whenever possible, when I have to have something I insist on the old stuff. I don't trust the new wonderful cure pills. I'll take the old not so great doesn't kill people pill that has been around since the beginning of time. Works for me, I feel safer. There has to be a look in this industry at the money trail. Thank you Carolyn.

    • 3 years ago
  • AreOh
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      AreOh  

    • In my professional work, I had an opportunity to do some work for a pharmaceutical company that shall remain nameless. It really is a travesty that the focus was maximizing profitability as opposed to, you know, helping people be well. And it is a cut throat business. And like CG said, it's insidious reach stretches all the way up to the halls of our policy makers.

    • 3 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
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      CarolynGillis  
    • AreOh:

      Thank you for your comment. It is important that you are stating this as a past employee of the industry.
      I think that stories will be uncovered that are inhuman beyond belief...for profits. I have strong suspicions of my own dealings with the medical system. I hp that this is stopped by the next administration but I am not sure if it will. They are powerful.

    • 3 years ago
  • VoyagerFilms
  • CarolynGillis
  • macosveteran
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      macosveteran  

    • Big pharm. Big money. Big experiments on humans. What's new? Surprised there's private sector influence?

      Been to Korea lately? They're the best in reaction to bad beef from the US!

      Whole foods, if it were not so costly, is the best. In Europe they don't do GM foods; last I heard.

      Money laundering. 0's and 1's, who cares about quality, that's the game. Not my game mind you.

    • 3 years ago
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