It's not so asinine: A compliant pharmacist is actually an accessory to the crime, because he should know better after his rigorous professional training.
Granted, I fully understand why he might not wish to lose his job, but here's an analogy from my own field as a musician:
If I send my child to a piano teacher, I DO want that teacher to…
It's not so asinine: A compliant pharmacist is actually an accessory to the crime, because he should know better after his rigorous professional training.
Granted, I fully understand why he might not wish to lose his job, but here's an analogy from my own field as a musician:
If I send my child to a piano teacher, I DO want that teacher to make the important technical and musical decisions, because my child hasn't the knowledge to take personal responsibility.
For example, if the teacher knowingly gives my child keyboard exercises that carry a risk of tendonitis in sensitive individuals, and my child has to undergo surgery as a result, then I will hold that teacher responsible.
Similarly, we expect to be able to depend upon experts like doctors, which is why recent events are so frightful.
Of course it is wise to 'research' what our doctors give us, but our relative lack of scientific training can only take us so far in that respect.
just think: We can no longer trust our doctors, and whose fault is that?
The point is, we SHOULD be able to trust them.
Our institutions of oversight are completely corrupted.
My father-in-law started in pharmacy before most of you (and for some of you, your parents) were even a twinkle in your daddy’s (or grand-daddy’s) eye. Until about twenty-five years ago, first of all there weren’t a whole lot of different drugs on the market, and second, they were actually tested. In the late 90’s is really when the pharmaceutical companies had gotten completely out of control. The terrible thing is, he arrived at the understanding that the drugs they were putting out were possibly not what they claimed towards the end of his career, and I won’t go into how he came to THAT realization here because it’s deeply personal. He’s been retired for some time now, long before the fiasco that has been the last three years.
But if you want to think that pharmacists are somehow making a decent living with no consequences of just how dangerous these pharmaceuticals are- most of the pharmacists he knew died early of cancer. His pharmacy partner died of aggressive cancer at 58. He himself has the very aggressive sort of prostate cancer. The kind that will kill you eventually. He was diagnosed several years ago and is only alive because MD Anderson has some cutting edge treatments. These cancers are probably caused by then handling and inhaling the drug dust.
Everything we do has consequences. Some people want to blame the consequences of their own actions on others, because they don’t want to admit that they are responsible for themselves. We are not children, and your analogy that we are, is again, more evidence that so many people want a daddy government to regulate, to the very end, every aspect of their lives.
It’s okay. It wasn’t my intention to use you or your family as an example; but just to comment on the state of today’s Pharma in general - and only today’s.
In any case I’m probably at least as old as you, and I remember the ‘good ol’ days’ too…
No, we are indeed not children, but we do elect and appoint ‘representatives’ to represent us, and unfortunately they no longer do so.
It’s the failure of oversight that appals me, and I’d like to see some of that ‘personal responsibility’ rub off on those ‘overseers’.
It should go without saying that we take our own steps to verify information to the best of our ability.
It's not so asinine: A compliant pharmacist is actually an accessory to the crime, because he should know better after his rigorous professional training.
Granted, I fully understand why he might not wish to lose his job, but here's an analogy from my own field as a musician:
If I send my child to a piano teacher, I DO want that teacher to make the important technical and musical decisions, because my child hasn't the knowledge to take personal responsibility.
For example, if the teacher knowingly gives my child keyboard exercises that carry a risk of tendonitis in sensitive individuals, and my child has to undergo surgery as a result, then I will hold that teacher responsible.
Similarly, we expect to be able to depend upon experts like doctors, which is why recent events are so frightful.
Of course it is wise to 'research' what our doctors give us, but our relative lack of scientific training can only take us so far in that respect.
just think: We can no longer trust our doctors, and whose fault is that?
The point is, we SHOULD be able to trust them.
Our institutions of oversight are completely corrupted.
My father-in-law started in pharmacy before most of you (and for some of you, your parents) were even a twinkle in your daddy’s (or grand-daddy’s) eye. Until about twenty-five years ago, first of all there weren’t a whole lot of different drugs on the market, and second, they were actually tested. In the late 90’s is really when the pharmaceutical companies had gotten completely out of control. The terrible thing is, he arrived at the understanding that the drugs they were putting out were possibly not what they claimed towards the end of his career, and I won’t go into how he came to THAT realization here because it’s deeply personal. He’s been retired for some time now, long before the fiasco that has been the last three years.
But if you want to think that pharmacists are somehow making a decent living with no consequences of just how dangerous these pharmaceuticals are- most of the pharmacists he knew died early of cancer. His pharmacy partner died of aggressive cancer at 58. He himself has the very aggressive sort of prostate cancer. The kind that will kill you eventually. He was diagnosed several years ago and is only alive because MD Anderson has some cutting edge treatments. These cancers are probably caused by then handling and inhaling the drug dust.
Everything we do has consequences. Some people want to blame the consequences of their own actions on others, because they don’t want to admit that they are responsible for themselves. We are not children, and your analogy that we are, is again, more evidence that so many people want a daddy government to regulate, to the very end, every aspect of their lives.
It’s okay. It wasn’t my intention to use you or your family as an example; but just to comment on the state of today’s Pharma in general - and only today’s.
In any case I’m probably at least as old as you, and I remember the ‘good ol’ days’ too…
No, we are indeed not children, but we do elect and appoint ‘representatives’ to represent us, and unfortunately they no longer do so.
It’s the failure of oversight that appals me, and I’d like to see some of that ‘personal responsibility’ rub off on those ‘overseers’.
It should go without saying that we take our own steps to verify information to the best of our ability.
Common sense will always be our best ally.
All the best.