By Stuart Chaifetz
The Dark Side of Big Pharma: Part 1 - Hitting Us Where it Hurts
I’m kicking off another multi-part blog series, this time focusing on the actions of Pharmaceutical companies.
As anyone who has a dog or cat knows, when you take them to the vet for a shot or medication, by the time you pay the bill, all that is left in your wallet is either a small puff of dust, or a credit card wilted and bruised from the electronic fiscal beating it had just taken.
In the past couple of months I’ve felt this personally. Both of my dogs, Theseus and Tiberius, have had to make trips to the vet that left me wondering if that was an antibiotic my dog had, or did they just pump liquid gold into his backside. It turns out that it was both.
