"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Drug Prices:Jane Galt has an excellent post about the economics of drug prices. The comment section is excellent, too. She has another one, here. I'm still convinced the pharmaceutical companies spend disproportionately on marketing. Attend any large medical conference and see the extravagance of the drug displays and you'll be convinced, too. They don't seem to worry about maintaining a budget at all when it comes to promotion. The response to the hormone replacement therapy study from two weeks ago is a case in point. Wyeth sent me the same letter defending Premarin three times: by special UPS courier, at home, at night, the day the study hit the newspapers; by fax the next morning, and yesterday by regular mail. They spend on promotion as if there's no tomorrow. They must have so much money in the promotion budgets that they don't know what to do with it. posted by Sydney on
7/24/2002 06:31:00 AM
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