My Interview with Children's Health Defense TV, how the pharma system was broken, and how to fix it
Yes, it can be fixed, but not without a lot of hard work
My interview with Children's Health Defense TV
Yesterday, I did an interview with the fantastic Shabnam Palesa Mohamed on behalf of Children's Health Defense TV.
The question Shabnam posed to me was “Can Big Pharma be reformed?”
Feel free to Watch the Interview (it’s the first up).
To help you make your mind up, if you get a chance to watch, I’ve added a written assessment below.
Is the pharma system broken?
Who would argue that the pharma system isn’t broken; now turned toxic?
So, what can be done about it? There's a reasonably simple answer if we apply Systems Thinking (ST) to it.
Russell Ackoff is always my first port of call when it comes to ST, and he has a ton of quotes behind him that are incredibly apposite in the world of organisations, such as:
“The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. Problems that arise in organisations are almost always the product of interactions of parts, never the action o…