Sunday, December 26, 2021

"What the drug industry does is it fulfills the criteria for organized crime in U.S. law. "

Peter C. Gotzsche, MD, cofounded the Cochrane Collaboration

1.  Prescription drugs are the 3rd leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer.  

2.  Our drugs kill around 200,000 people in America every year, and half of these people die while they do what their doctors told them.  So they die because of the side effects.  The other half die because of errors, and it's often the doctor who makes the errors because any drug may come with 20, 30, 40 warnings, contraindications, precautions, and so on.  No doctor in the world knows about all this.  So they give patients drugs that they should not have given them that interact with other drugs or food items, and so on.  That's the other half.  

3.  So, the other thing I found out two years ago was that what the drug industry does is it fulfills the criteria for organized crime in U.S. law.  And they behave in many ways like the mafia does.  They corrupt everyone they can corrupt.  They have bought every type of person even including ministers of health in some countries.  There is a huge amount of corruption.  For example, in my country, Denmark, we are regarded as having very little corruption but yet we have thousands of doctors on industry payrolls although we are just 20,000 doctors.  So this is an effective kind of corruption.  The drug industry buys the professors first, then chiefs of departments, chief physicians, of course.  They don't buy junior doctors.  So when several thousands are on industry payroll, it's really bad.  And that's why I wrote my book, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare, Peter C. Gotzsche, 2013. 

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