Ping
So... inventions must immediately become public property, for the common good? How progressive. Must be an Obamanoid idea.
While I agree that the medical community has an ethical obligation to make lifesaving technology available for use by other doctors, this does have the ring of supporting government healthcare (after all, the government would ensure that such things were never withheld from patients, wouldn’t they? /s)
I read about an 18th century doctor who was allowed to do an experiment where all the doctors in a maternity ward simply washed their hands. All kinds of complications dropped significantly.
His evidence was ignored and doctors continued working with grubby hands for another 75 years. The poor guy went mad trying to convince his colleagues he was right.
I’m glad they have the vacumn to use now.
“the pharmaceutical company Pfizer only provided previously concealed studies to IQWiG after subjection to public pressure. In the previously unpublished studies, the results for reboxetine were considerably worse than appeared to be the case in published studies. “For many years, not only patients but also physicians have been deceived”
This sort of thing is rampant in BIG PHARMA, and the FDA condones it. This lying, cover-up SOP should be punished severely, with prison time for BIG PHARMA execs and FDA execs. In some cases, where deaths occur among the public harmed by such drugs, murder charges should be brought - against drug execs and FDA.