Industry Brawls And Brouhahas

Big Pharma Sexy Little Secret

[Hey follow this conversation on twitter via #BPSLS] You gotta admit, the girl paid attention during her training class. Or at least, the “unwritten codes” in training, which would include playing up your sexiness and putting that pressure on the docs for writing your prescriptions. Why? Because this girl’s “pharma confessions” book has entered the [...]

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Blogs: The Prevention of Ignorance

By Dan Abshear Historically, information sources provided to American citizens were limited due to the few methods available to the public. And also this information was subject to being filtered and, in some cases, delayed. This occurred for a number of reasons, which included political ones. Now, and with great elation, there is the internet. [...]

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Crime and Punishment: Enough for Corporate Wrongdoing?

By Dan Abshear Corporate crime should not be a new concept to many. However, it has evolved into more troubling ways- not only in regards to its severity, but the methods of deterrence now being implemented against corporations- involved in the health care industry in particular. So it may be becoming progressively worse for U.S. [...]

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Blogs Becoming a Changing Force For Industry

Recently, when I was interviewed for a New York Times article (noted here and here or link out), my conversation with Barnaby Feder touched on the question of whether an online forum can be an agent of change in the way pharmaceutical companies do business. “No,” I said to Mr. Feder, “it hasn’t been, and [...]

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AstraZeneca Proves that Ethics Cannot be Legislated

I purposely refrained from commenting on the hullabaloo around AstraZeneca’s Mike Zubillaga expose and firing because practically every other pharma blogger is writing about it, along with a tsunami of message board activities around this incident. Now that we’ve ridden several crests and troughs since the “money bucket” comment, additional information has come out from [...]

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