Money Talks - Profits Before Patient Safety (2006)

Money Talks - Profits Before Patient Safety (2006)

Money Talks exposes the questionable tactics that big drug companies use to make record profits by playing with the safety of our family’s health care. Using misleading advertising, attractive “drug reps” who wine and dine doctors and other unethical practices, the drug industry makes billions of dollars every year selling us unsafe, unnecessary and overpriced drugs.

There are over 80,000 pharmaceutical sales people employed in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States alone. My understanding is that that is about 1 for every 4 doctors. Their job is to sell drugs. Their job is not to educate doctors. Their job is not to provide medical information. They have one job and one job only: to push their product particularly against other competing products. Doctors should not trust them to give them unbiased and accurate information about their drugs, and frankly, doctors shouldn’t let them in their offices.

Featuring Interviews with:

* John Abramson MD - Harvard, Author of Overdo$ed America
* Bob Goodman MD - Columbia, Founder of No Free Lunch
* Alex Sugerman-Brozan JD - Prescription Access Litigation
* Jeanne Lenzer - Investigative Journalist
* Scott Schultz - former pharmaceutical sales representative
* Jerome Hoffman MD - UCLA Medical School

Duration: 50 minutes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832226/

IMDB rating 9.3/10