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Gardner Harris

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
301 total appearances

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Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

And I think we need an entirely different agency to essentially monitor products once they are on the market.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

I think there needs to be a policing mechanism.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

The healthcare system is opaque.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

It's very hard for people to see what's really going on.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

Another thing that I think is extremely important is that we should be able to trust our doctors.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

They are what are known as learned intermediaries, which means they have all kinds of knowledge that we don't, and they should be an actually unbiased intermediary.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

But when drug companies pay them,

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

and they continue to pay doctors to the tune of more than a billion dollars a year, they are no longer an unbiased intermediary.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

And in all of the cases that I talk about, the reason why so many people died is that Johnson & Johnson paid doctors to use products in dangerous ways.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

To this day,

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

There are many oncologists in this country who prescribe EPO to cancer patients, even though EPO, made by Johnson & Johnson, has been shown to be miracle grow to tumors.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

But doctors make an enormous amount of money when they prescribe EPO to cancer patients.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

So I think...

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

If your doctor wants to take money from Johnson & Johnson, that's fine.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

They can do that.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

They just can't treat patients anymore.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

So choose one or the other.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

Work for industry or work for your patients.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

But you can't do both.

Apple News Today
Rebroadcast: The truth about Johnson & Johnson

That's probably my most important piece of advice.