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Taub, blind und stumm
“The influence that the pharmaceutical companies, the for-profits, are having on every aspect of medicine … is so blatant now you’d have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it.”
Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, Herausgeberin des Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in einem Artikel von CBC.radio-canada.ca
"Why the fuck are you listening to your rep?"
Selling drugs is a lie. I sold drugs that I knew damn well—I sold Vioxx for Merck before it got taken off the market for killing people. I knew damn well it was dangerous; I went around telling them to write it. There’s a lot of serious lying I’ve done in my life.
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I’m doing a job. For me, in that case, Merck told me to go out and sell drug even though I had hesitation about it. It’s not for me to say. … Don’t listen to me. Read your fucking journals. Why the fuck are you listening to your rep? Just because I’m pretty? You think I know more about the drug? No.
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I’m doing a job. For me, in that case, Merck told me to go out and sell drug even though I had hesitation about it. It’s not for me to say. … Don’t listen to me. Read your fucking journals. Why the fuck are you listening to your rep? Just because I’m pretty? You think I know more about the drug? No.
Corrine Kaplan, ehemalige Pharmareferentin in Diensten von Merck & Co. und GlaxoSmithKline, spricht über ihre Tätigkeit.