3. TIL: nine out of the ten largest Pharmaceutical companies in the world spend mor...

TIL: nine out of the ten largest Pharmaceutical companies in the world spend more on marketing than R&D

Don't forget sending reps to buy entire staffs at doctor's offices all over the country full catered lunches every single day of the week. I had to watch them send in these vapid, sexpot wannabe cunts to my boss' and wife's offices week in and week out for years. It's standard for them to spend upwards of a few grand a day on this ass kissing bribery to get their meds pushed onto a doctors' patients. Oh and hate fucking our patent laws is kind of expensive too. Wouldn't want my son to be able to breathe through mild coughing asthma for anything less than two entire paychecks a month. $550-1000 a month because one piece of shit sub-human wants to keep rewriting patent law so they can be the sole monopolizing provider of the meds many kids need to breathe. Never mind that the meds don't even work like they're supposed to any more. I strongly suspect they're being redesigned to ensure kids no longer grow out of asthma and can't even maintain consistent treatment levels through simple seasonal changes, which is why I'm seething having just spent an entire paycheck and a half on meds,(again and again every month) yet a week later still listening to my son cough his lungs out every 30 seconds. This happens every time his allergist decides to change a med or fuck with what was previously working, and I know for a fact it's due to drug rep influence and keeping my son a paying customer for as long as possible. Nah, never going to sympathize with drug companies. They can all burn in hell, or get AIDS in their faces for all I care. I'm glad I no longer work at any doctor's office because I was coming too close to killing a drug rep one day. and no, I never ate a damn thing they bought for my office and I ignored them as if they weren't speaking to me when they tried. My wife used to be a lot more cordial, but after some of the really lean times we've had and the things we have to go without in order to afford these inhalers shes gotten to be just as fed up with their shit as I am and has even told one of the regulars to stop speaking to her. I was so proud when she told me. No amount of excuse peddling will ever get to me to give a fuck about big pharma's "problems". If I ever come down with something, no just something terminal, just something really expensive, keep an eye on the news because I assure I will be on there and there will be a really big fucking number next to my picture and a lot of people saying shit like "He was so quiet,..wait no he wasn't, we saw this coming a long way off."

Did you forget to take your seroquel or haldol?

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