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Getbig Main Boards => General Topics => Topic started by: MB_722 on August 03, 2008, 02:12:03 PM
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Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000
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People usually won't believe this unfortunately.
Example: Gardasil is pushed so Merck can recoup some of it's Vioxx lawsuit money (why they have tried to make it mandatory for school children $$$). The industry is in need of a major overhaul. She is right, they are not in it to cure, they are in it to treat symptoms (which may lead to other health problems they can treat) and not the actual cause.
Allopathic medicine is not all evil of course, but they need to stop with the bullshit and using the public as guinea pigs and withholding information when people are prescribed drugs.