Granting that the handsome salaries paid across those companies are funded in some part by the profits from the embarrassing activities.
Jim
James M. Walker, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Information Officer
Geisinger Health System
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
>>> Amy Price <[log in to unmask]> 7/3/2012 1:36 PM >>>
Andrzej, I couldn't agree more, tarring all with the same brush just starts
a feeding frenzy and also even for this company I am sure there are those on
the sidelines that were contracted and acted in integrity for their part of
the assignment
Amy
From: Andrzej Glowinski <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Andrzej Glowinski <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 11:34 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B in largest healthcare fraud
settlement in US history
Although I agree with the harshest penalties for both companies and
individuals responsible for these unacceptable actions, please remember that
there are very many people who work or have worked -- myself included -- for
pharma companies, and to whom the "ethical" in what used to be "ethical
pharmaceuticals" was, and remains, primary.
It is very troubling to feel associated with people who hold the view that
fraud of this kind might be acceptable. However, it is also extremely
uncomfortable that some view everyone associated with pharma as evil. I and
colleagues have in the past categorically refused to work with some units in
some companies because of their attitudes, and made this clear, even if it
meant attracting ill-feeling or turning down paid work. Probably won't make
much difference, but at least my conscience is clear.
And yes, my small pension will be affected by all of this.
I hope that "these folk" refers specifically to those directly responsible.
Andrzej Glowinski
On 3 Jul 2012, at 15:21, Tom Jefferson wrote:
> The only deterrent for these folk are jail and confiscation of bank accounts,
> property and other assets including pensions.
>
> On 3 July 2012 16:18, Penny S Reynolds/FS/VCU <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> To put the settlement into its financial perspective, Katie Smith of the New
>> York Times stated on the PBS Newshour that the combined sales of Avandia,
>> Paxil and Wellbutrin totaled approximately $26 billion over the settlement
>> period. So will a $3B fine be much of a deterrent to this sort of
>> irresponsible behaviour?
>>
>>
>> bw
>> Penny S Reynolds
>>
>> The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and
>> order, do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. Louis D.
>> Brandeis
>>
>> -----"Evidence based health (EBH)" <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote: -----
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> From: "Lehman, Richard"
>>> Sent by: "Evidence based health (EBH)"
>>> Date: 07/03/2012 09:14
>>> Subject: Re: GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B in largest healthcare fraud
>>> settlement in US history
>>>
>>>
>>> Couldn't agree more. GSK are now trying to clean up their image by
>>> supporting the priniciple of open data sharing in the future, but firms
>>> caught doing the things they have should be made to disclose their entire
>>> retrospective research databases for independent scrutiny at their own cost,
>>> as well as being made open to the prosecution of individuals involved in
>>> fraud/false marketing/data concealment.
>>>
>>> It is shameful that settlements like this can be part of a business plan to
>>> amass huge profits while knowingly harming patients. As yet there is nothing
>>> concrete in place to deter similar behaviour in the future.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> From: Evidence based health (EBH) [[log in to unmask]] on
>>> behalf of Paul Elias [[log in to unmask]]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:03 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3B in largest healthcare fraud settlement
>>> in US history
>>>
>>> Once again, the good, the bad, the ugly about big pharma...for this, I can
>>> only see the bad and ugly, nothing good about this. this was all greed and
>>> complicity. Last week it was Pfizer and the Celebrex deceit and witholding
>>> of safety clinical data, now Glaxo...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/record-settlement-glaxosmithkline-plead-gui
>>> lty-pay-3b-illicit-192857575--finance.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Paul E. Alexander
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Tom Jefferson
> www.attentiallebufale.it <http://www.attentiallebufale.it/>
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