DR. PETER ROST: INFLUENCING THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT - ONE MORE GIRL EXCERPTS ( ThinkExistFilms - May 02, 2013 )

DR. PETER ROST: INFLUENCING THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT - ONE MORE GIRL EXCERPTS ( ThinkExistFilms - May 02, 2013 ) Dr. Peter Rost is a former vice president of Pfizer and a whistleblower of the pharmaceutical industry. Author of “The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman,“ Rost is an insider expert on big pharma marketing. : “ ... universities , Health Organization’s , everybody that I’ve encountered in my former career as a pharmaceutical executive are out there with their hands out. you know everybody’s begging for money, nobody has any money ; the government doesn’t have any money, universes don’t have money, nobody’s money. the only ones that have money are these big multinational corporations. and they have lots of money and they use that money to basically buy influence. and the way it’s done is, number one: you give these organizations and institutions grants for various kinds of research. you do develop research together with them. you establish friends, you make sure that they become beholden to you. and you also pay individual professors and doctors and researchers directly. you may pay them as speakers to travel around the country… a thousand, two thousand dollars per day, sometimes more. you give the money for programs that the educational programs where they can make a profit and then they put on these programs and they’re supposed to be third party independent from the company which is all fine, but as you and I can both imagine if you have a promotional budget at a corporation, you’re probably going to give that money to the universities that do the programs that most support your drug and the ones that don’t or a critical in any shape way or form not going to get anything and everybody obviously knows that this is how things work and and that means that even if you can officially claim well this we this is arms-length we didn’t have anything to do with it. we just gave them a grant they can do whatever they want with it. reality is then what can I continue to get money unless they’re saying what you want them to say. they know it, you know it, it’s only maybe the public that doesn’t know it and that’s how you influence the medical establishment simply with money . “ — * Dr. Peter Rost