At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals. The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries-yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. Please join us in the fight for transparency, accountability and less Pharma influence - here.The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge-misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health. This is a movie that would never be commissioned through mainstream media channels so we’re starting at ground zero here and asking you, the public to support the production to keep the message free from any commercial interest or influence. We are currently in pre production and - subject to finance - plan to start filming here in the home of Big Pharma - the US - in the summer. If you’re wondering what we must do collectively and how we should respond individually in an environment pruned of health and primed for profit, this is the movie with the answers. And that is why I am producing my second my feature length documentary - First Do No Pharm - to show the public exactly how our collective health has been bartered, bought and sold for decades now.
The numbers are so vast that we cannot quite digest the enormity of what it all means. These companies rack up billion dollar fines like badges of honour, their CEO’s then line up to apologise profusely before returning to the profanity of profit maximisation at a very grave cost to human health. Our regulators have been captured by those companies they were established to regulate and Big Pharma is more powerful, profitable and prolific than at any time in human history. Working closely with the British Medical Journal we achieved some notable milestones, but we have yet to see the changes in legislation that are critical for better patient care and health outcomes.
For over a decade now I have been campaigning vigorously about the harms of too much medicine.
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