| Video Clip: Big Bucks, Big Pharma Documentary |
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Newly released by the Media Education
Foundation, "Big Bucks, Big Pharma" pulls
back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar
pharmaceutical industry to expose the
insidious ways that illness is used,
manipulated, and in some instances created,
for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's
marketing practices, media scholars and
health professionals help viewers understand
the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC)
pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and
normalizes the use of prescription
medication, and works in tandem with
promotion to doctors. Combined, these
industry practices shape how both patients
and doctors understand and relate to disease
and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big
Pharma challenges us to ask important
questions about the consequences of relying
on a for-profit industry for our health and
well-being.
Featuring interviews with Dr. Marcia Angell
(Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
School; Former Editor New England Journal of
Medicine), Dr. Bob Goodman (Columbia
University Medical Center; Founder, No Free
Lunch), Gene Carbona (Former Pharmaceutical
Industry Insider and Current Executive
Director of Sales, The Medical Letter),
Katharine Greider (Journalist; Author, The
Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips
Off American Consumers,), Dr. Elizabeth
Preston (Dept. of Communication, Westfield
State College), and Dr. Larry Sasich (Public
Citizen Health Research Group).
Producer/Editor: Ronit Ridberg
Check out: www.mediaed.org
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Affichage : 32853
Durée : 292 s |
| Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness |
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Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out - 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, Gwen worked in the natural foods
industry first as an Account Manager for
Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales
Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a
writer, speaker, and natural health
consultant.
The United States health care system is
killing Americans at an alarming rate, even
though we spend over fifteen percent of the
Gross National Product (GNP) on health care.
According to the Journal of the American
Medical Association, our health care outcomes
ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five
industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse
effects from prescription drugs have become
the third-leading killer of Americans. Only
heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We
trust our doctors to inform us and our
government to protect us from medical
malfeasance that may put profits ahead of
consumer health and safety. But the fine line
walked by the FDA between the interests of
the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the
American public has continually been crossed.
The result is the unleashing of an
unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the
U.S. market!
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that
lurks in every American's medicine cabinet,
working in the pharmaceutical industry. But
her most poignant education would come as a
victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.
Visit Gwen's Website at
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
God's Call to Loving Arms
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Rx-Drug-Pus
her-Loving/dp/0595357636
This video was produced by Psychetruth
http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth
http://www.youtube.com/psychetruth
© Copyright 2008 Gwen Olsen. All Rights
Reserved.
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Durée : 439 s |
| Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs |
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http://www.mediaed.org
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain
on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical
industry to expose the insidious ways that
illness is used, manipulated, and in some
instances created, for capital gain. Focusing
on the industry's marketing practices, media
scholars and health professionals help
viewers understand the ways in which
direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical
advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use
of prescription medication, and works in
tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined,
these industry practices shape how both
patients and doctors understand and relate to
disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks,
Big Pharma challenges us to ask important
questions about the consequences of relying
on a for-profit industry for our health and
well-being.
Featuring interviews with Dr. Marcia Angell
(Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
School; Former Editor New England Journal of
Medicine), Dr. Bob Goodman (Columbia
University Medical Center; Founder, No Free
Lunch), Gene Carbona (Former Pharmaceutical
Industry Insider and Current Executive
Director of Sales, The Medical Letter),
Katharine Greider (Journalist; Author, The
Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips
Off American Consumers,), Dr. Elizabeth
Preston (Dept. of Communication, Westfield
State College), and Dr. Larry Sasich (Public
Citizen Health Research Group).
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Affichage : 32734
Durée : 297 s |
| Big Bucks, Big Pharma Extra: Drug Costs and PR |
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A special extra to the film "Big Bucks, Big
Pharma," this compilation shows how drug
companies thwart attempts to rein in
skyrocketing prescription drug costs through
false claims that regulation will hinder the
research and development of essential new
drugs. These PR campaigns by the
pharmaceutical industry aim to frighten the
public, and divert us from realizing that
high drug prices are more about feeding
multi-billion dollar industry profits, and
supporting massive advertising and lobbying
efforts, than they are about securing the
invention of effective new drugs.
Producer/Editor: Ronit Ridberg
Check out: http://www.bigbucksbigpharma.org/
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Affichage : 12978
Durée : 230 s |
| Pharma Insider Part II |
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Opposition Research
Douglas Melnick, MD MPH, a former pharma
insider, tells how pharmaceutical companies
gather information on the competition while
staying within the law. Dr. Melnick, a
preventive medicine physician, is a
consultant to PharmedOUT.org, a publicly
funded project to educate physicians about
inappropriate pharmaceutical promotion.
Transcript of this video is available at
http://www.pharmedout.org.
PharmedOut is an independent project funded
through the Attorney General Consumer and
Prescriber Education grant program that
educates physicians on how pharmaceutical
companies influence prescribing.
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Affichage : 2350
Durée : 263 s |
| Big Pharma Ultimate Commerical |
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Made by Prescriptionforchange.com, this is
one of the most entertaining viral campaigns
I have seen. Both the animation and content
to top notch.
This was created and is the copyrighted work
of Next New Networks:
http://www.nextnewnetworks.com/
YouTube just told me, so now I'm telling you.
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