Public health is a victim of its own success.
#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-26 01:54 PM | Reply | Flag
Public health is by far more a victim of modern medicine in present times. But keep running around in circles with your phake pDh...
"It's a well-documented fact that adverse prescription drug effects and other medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America. Adverse drug events harm 2.7 million hospitalized patients in the U.S. annually, with over 106,000 deaths and that's just for hospitalized patients. Another 350,00 adverse drug events occur in U.S. nursing homes each year.
And believe it or not, by most estimates, only 1-10% of adverse events are ever reported.
Are there no effective safeguards in place to protect consumers from dangerous drugs? And who might be to blame?
That good question was studied by researchers at Harvard (Donald W. Light, Joel Lexchin, and Jonathan J. Darrow)[i]. What did they find? While not absolving physicians of their responsibility to get the facts about drugs " what they discovered about the big pharmaceutical companies is disturbing ...
"Institutional corruption is a normative concept of growing importance that embodies the systemic dependencies and informal practices that distort an institution's societal mission.
An extensive range of studies and lawsuits already documents strategies by which pharmaceutical companies hide, ignore, or misrepresent evidence about new drugs; distort the medical literature; and misrepresent products to prescribing physicians.
We focus on the consequences for patients: millions of adverse reactions. After defining institutional corruption, we focus on evidence that it lies behind the epidemic of harms and the paucity of benefits...
The authors of this study found that institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical industry occurs on three levels:
Lobbying efforts and political contributions
Industry pressure on the FDA
Commercializing the role of physicians"
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