I dont believe its Peter Pitts and I agree with your opinion of him.

Im not anti industry, Many of my friends and family need their medications to survive. I have a real problem with children being overmedicated, and children in the foster care program being abused, and adolescent teens who have been victims of rape and incest being told that they need Psychtropic drugs for their chemical imbalance. What they deserve is the perpetrator being prosecuted and to provide them w/adequate counseling/therapy.

I will take your advice and ignore SC..

SC no more represents the pharma industry as some of the occasional nuts who post irrational rants against the industry. (Please note that I am not trying to bash the regular anti-industry posters, many of whom have legitimate issues and rational opinions–though I disagree with most). Why pay attention to SC; just ignore him and (maybe)he’ll go away.

By the way, I doubt that its Peter Pitts; he usually has cogent opinions–like them or not. He also isn’t afraid to use his real name.

Atlex

You do wonders for Industrys’ image.

They should be easy, and wild. If you want to really increase your readership, try blogging encounters with med free left wing blog groupies.

Start a premium service. I would pay to read it. That would open another world of potential advertisers. You should, of course, name them, their fees, and their agendas. For transparency.

Maybe sepremacy is actually Peter Pitts!

Because last time I checked Ed wasn’t prescribing drugs or treating patients. He’s a reporter…..doing what reporters do.

Old argument, SC ,that has been trotted out here before when someone doesn’t get the support they want in their opinions.

As the public may judge the influence of a sandwich on clinical decisions, shouldn’t the public get to judge the influence of 100% dependence for your entire salary on advertisers profiting from the attack nature of the blog?

Lead the way toward transparency. If you feel, this demand is oppressive, picayune and ridiculous, why is the regulation mandating the reporting a sandwich less so? If you feel the demand chills Free Press rights, where no harm has been shown, why is the equally Supreme Court protected validity of clinical decisions any less chilled by the demands of the left wing attack ideologues?

This is my last note to you, because I think you’re making assumptions without any direct knowledge.

For instance, have you analyzed the advertising on this site over the past few months to determine how much of it was placed by companies targeting consumers compared with other target audiences and which companies placed those ads? How many were consulting firms? I would like to see a breakdown. If you’re unable to provide a breakdown, I’ll make it easy - there were very few consulting firms advertising on the site.

I understand your points, but I respectfully disagree. You’re entitled to your view, but you unnecessarily surround them with a bit too much invective. And for that reason, I’m now moving on. Feel free to write back as much as you like, but I’m afraid I have nothing more to say.

ed

Doctor’s income is 10% from drug companies services. More typical is under 1% because drug companies are so cheap, the doctor loses money participating in their events. The doctor could make twice as much seeing more patients during that time, and without travel. That 10% is not enough to influence clinical decisions that will make the doctor’s life miserable, if the patient does not do well.

You stop your relentless bashing of doctors and drug companies, you lose your advertisers. Your advertisers are here for doctgor and drug company bashing. These are consultants dependent on these attacks on clinical for their high fees. Your ads end, you lose your entire job. Your conflict of interest is 100%, not 10% as with the doctor. Your blog is a Trojan Horse for the consulting business dependent on attack on clinical care.

You are so swimming in it, you have zero awareness you are in a sewer of left wing bias, to make a living, to keep your job.

I am going to guess you are under 40. I await your 40th birthday. You will pay big time for your misguided attacks on the people that will save your life over and over, and will make life worth living between the long parade of organ failures. You will remember my curse.

If you are not knowingly corrupt, you are being played. This campaign is by insurance companies with $tril in reserves to deprive dark skinned people on Medicaid of expensive, superior brand name medication. They have Grassley and chumps on the left serve as water boys. If docs start writing for generics, your blog and the entire hubbub disappears.