2013 Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare (pdf)

Description

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare, by Peter C. Gøtzsche, with forewords by Richard Smith, former editor-in-chief, The British Medical Journal, and Drummond Rennie, deputy editor, JAMA (Radcliffe 2013), is not the first exposition to compare the industry with the Mafia or mob. Author quotes a former vicepresident of Pfizer, who has said: “It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry …”