INSIDE PHARMA

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DON'T FIGHT THE PHARMA SYSTEM, CHANGE THE RULES—THE SYSTEM WILL CHANGE ITSELF

DON'T FIGHT THE PHARMA SYSTEM, CHANGE THE RULES—THE SYSTEM WILL CHANGE ITSELF

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Why wouldn’t we fight the pharma system, it’s corrupt!

Nothing new in corrupt systems, is there?! You don’t need me to lecture you on that, as a time-served critical thinker.

You probably also know that it’s ‘moving mountains’ stuff to stop a system doing what it enjoys most, especially if other people are benefitting greatly from it.

That’s where we are with the pharma industry now, with millions of committed individuals fighting this evil money-making machine—but what would happen if we gave up the fight?

Nothing in the short-term, other than give us time to work out a strategy to stop the monster from consuming all in its path.

I’ll explain how this is the best course of action.

It’s been a boiling frog episode

We have to accept that the demise of the system has been a boiling frog episode.

For those not familiar with the analogy, here is the Wikipedia account (with apologies to non-Wikipedia fans), extract below:

The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive…

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