Thursday, February 17, 2011

Dr. Grumpy Takes on the Industry

Dr. Grumpy has an interesting bit about the pharmaceutical industry today. Here's a preview:

Pharmaceuticals are amazing stuff. You can bitch and moan about their costs, side effects, or the number of them you're taking, but what they've done to extend life and improve it's quality is truly remarkable.

And for all the bad raps they get, I salute the pharmaceutical industry, and those who work anonymously in labs around the world, to bring us these miracles.

But drug companies also do absolutely weird crap. One thing that's recently driven me nuts is the trend away from drugs of real value toward what I call "drugs of convenience" (DoC).

read the rest here

1 comment:

Gwen said...

I love Dr. Grumpy!