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Ex-Pharma Sales Reps talks about manipulating d...
Ex-Pharma Sales Reps talks about manipulating doctors to sell more drugs.

In this video Gwen discusses some of the tactics used by some pharmaceutical sales reps to get doctors to prescribe their drugs.

This included tactics like minimizing harmful side effects to doctors, presenting statistics in a slanted way, accusing anyone that speaks out against psychiatric drugs as being a Scientologist, psychological profiling of doctors to best know how to convince them to prescribe your drugs, etc.

Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.

The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.
Visit Gwen's Website at

http://www.gwenolsen.com/

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
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Big Drug Companies Try to Hide the Truth with Slick Television Ads:

On the heels of recent drug recalls, accusations of political influence and outrage over high prescription drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry has begun a campaign to bolster its image. An article in The Hill details a “Healthcare Campfire with Billy Tauzin,” a recent effort by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the major lobbying group for big drug companies. Launched last month as part of a campaign that also includes several websites and weekly radio shows, the half-hour television program is hosted by Billy Tauzin, a former Republican congressman from Louisiana and the head of PhRMA since 2005. Though they are paid advertisements, the episodes are promoted as public affairs programs and feature interview segments with guests such as talk show host Montel Williams and former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow. Reports on drug research and other various health topics are narrated by ex-professional broadcasters and produced to look like local news, the result of over $1 million spent on a high-tech studio and control room that could be found at a television station. PhRMA aims for the show to be nationally broadcast by the end of 2008.

At the same time, Prescription Access Litigation (PAL), a national coalition of groups - including the Alliance – that challenges illegal and costly tactics by the pharmaceutical industry, called for increased enforcement by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) against misleading prescription drug direct-to-consumer advertisements. The call was part of comments offered to the FDA regarding its proposed study of on-screen images appearing while the risks and side effects of drugs are read during advertisements, and whether they change how viewers understand drug safety information. “Savvy Seniors won't be fooled by these slick infomercials,” said Ruben Burks, Secretary-Treasurer of the Alliance

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