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Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by netwanderer3 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:50AM (#19805949)
It's disheartening that this med is being used to treat infants and they wouldn't even leave those helpless babies alone. Healthcare is a $3.5 trillion dollar per year industry and is powering 20% of U.S economy, but I think the problem goes a lot deeper and further than just the medical field. This is a systematic issue across all industries where profits are increasingly being prioritized above everything else, even when it involves the most basic and essential human values.

Is the rapid increase of population part of the cause? Overpopulation often means the value of each individual will be decreased since anyone is now easily replaceable and becomes irrelevant. There are no signs this trend is going to stop anytime soon. I fear there has to be a massive catastrophic event to happen in order to trigger any societal changes at this level.

Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by basetop on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:25AM (#19807088)
It is pretty much every industry. The tobacco industry pushed studies and advertising claiming smoking was doctor approved and "healthy". The food industries/companies and their studies claiming cereal and orange juice constitutes a healthy breakfast. The oil industry, pharma, etc.

I think the diminishing value of humans/individuals is a result of overpopulation and industrialization. I don't remember who said it, but cities are now industrial farms for humans and a human being is a commodity/resource. In an industrial society, a human being is fundamentally no different than a cow or a pig on massive industrial farms. Our value is our commoditize productive value.

Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by myth_drannon on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:41AM (#19808386)
That's why HR is Human RESOURCES. I believe you are correct in your observation and your comment makes me very sad.
Re:Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors ... by icebraining on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:29AM (#19807117)
Increasingly? Yeah, in the past this definitively wasn't happening /s

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health1.html

Greed has always been a problem, a constant force we have to counteract.