Find It, File It, Flog It—exposing Big Pharma's route to blockbuster profits

...and the fraudulent activities that followed

Something written by me in 2015

I was royally hacked off when none of my former colleagues in the pharma industry took any meaningful notice of the sage advice I offered in Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics, (Wiley, 2011I).

That spurred me on to write a second in 2015. This book presented a caricature of the industry, in the guise of an addictive gambler, as described in the book excerpt below:

Big Pharma was crippled by a debilitating addiction many years ago. As with any addiction, lifestyle choices are at the center of the problem. For the addictive gambler, the roots of their demise lie in early success. Seduced by the rush of easy money, it becomes a way of life. The gambler doesn’t feel the need to go out and work, preferring instead to focus on beating the odds. Nothing is as important as the next win, and possessions and relationships often are discarded in order to fuel the habit. By the time the gambler rea…