A certain drug (OK, it was Zoloft,) saved my life. Literally. I won't
go into details, but I was seriously, critically depressed because of a
WHMNBN, and sitting in my physician's waiting room (my primary care
physician, who is a saintl,) waiting to see him. Also in the waiting
room were two pharamceutical representatives who were bad-mouthing
doctors in general, based on their resistance to BELIEVE everything that
they, snot-nosed young kids who were simply sales reps, not real, bona
fide scientists, told them (the docs) to believe. I was SO incensed
(partly due to my condition, as I was not yet on a proper dose of Zoloft
to relieve my depression,) that I spoke out and shocked the hell out of
them. They were real assholes, I kid you not.
That experience told me lots about the =business= of the drug
companies. Not everything is black and white, and I do not judge the
entire industry or its personnel. But it IS a business, so caveat emptor.
Earl, now free of clinical depression and not on Zoloft.
Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>>While I'm more than willing to concede that most of the drug industry is
>>>probably a bunch of bad guys
>>>
>>>
>
>Yeah, they're bad guys all right. Only have saved the lives of about half
>the effing people on the effing planet. These are genuinely interesting
>times. The people who do good things are portrayed as bad guys, and the reak
>kranks who contribute nothing but hot air and recriminations and accusations
>are somehow the good guys. As my old buddy Nero Wolfe used to say: Pfui!
>
>
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