KevinMD May 27, 2023
“One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m in a massive ballroom with numerous tables and promotional placards lining the walls and center. In attendance are every pharmaceutical manufacturer and their sales reps. All the biggies are here; Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, and AstraZeneca, to name a few. Their drugs are household names because they advertise them incessantly, and typically the actors look healthy and fit due to the benefits of their wonder drugs. In the real world, people who hope to live longer when diagnosed with stage four cancer can sometimes eke out a few extra months or so, if that.
Where is this...