Whenever I republish my newspaper op-eds on this Substack, I tend to introduce them with some comments on “how I really feel,” instead of the more staid language and arguments used in those pieces. In this one, I essentially argued that the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government should be ground zero for […]
Big Pharmaceutical Companies Should Not Guide COVID Drug Approval Process
It is a tried-and-true tactic with effective and dastardly results. Big Pharma and other well-financed interests sponsor purportedly “impartial” medical trials aimed at discrediting cheaper generic alternatives. Ignoring the flaws in the methodology, the media runs wild with the desired narrative, which is amplified by a well-orchestrated public relations effort. Social media shuts down alternative […]
How Pharmacists Are Willfully or Fearfully Preventing Physicians from Treating COVID patients
I am exhausted: physically, emotionally and morally. Although I am not sure moral exhaustion is “a thing,” the daily witnessing of masses of physicians and pharmacists abandoning their core responsibility of placing the welfare of the patient as their primary consideration…is beyond wearying. In the United States of Pharma, individual docs and pharmacists have been […]