Dr Arthur Kanev is one of a growing number of medical professionals who are critical of the role that major pharmaceutical companies play in driving health care in the United States and beyond.
"I am aghast over the control that Big Pharma has over the medical profession throughout the world," he says.
Critics say that "Big Pharma," the shorthand many of them use to refer to the pharmaceutical companies collectively, argue that the industry has put money and profits above the science that spawned it, and that they use marketing and merchandising as tools to get people to buy more of their products. It is the advertising of products, in particular, that has raised the ire of many of Big Pharma's critics. Most countries allow the advertising of over-the-counter medicines, but only the United States and New Zealand allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription drugs on television, although the government of New Zealand is reportedly reconsidering its laws. Advertising that ends with the phrase "tell your doctor" led comedian and social commentator Bill Maher to remark, "Shouldn't your doctor tell you what drugs you need? If you tell your doctor, isn't he just a dealer at that point?"
Some of the issues that concerned Dr Arthur Kanev came to a head in 2009, when he was diagnosed with skin cancer. He discovered that his own doctors would not follow the traditional treatment protocols that they regularly, and unhesitatingly, recommended to their patients. It led him to develop a treatment protocol of his own, and today he identifies himself as a self-cured cancer survivor and advocates for non-traditional forms of cancer treatment.
Sources:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Big_Pharma
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-I-Beat-4-Cancers&id=8919104
"I am aghast over the control that Big Pharma has over the medical profession throughout the world," he says.
Critics say that "Big Pharma," the shorthand many of them use to refer to the pharmaceutical companies collectively, argue that the industry has put money and profits above the science that spawned it, and that they use marketing and merchandising as tools to get people to buy more of their products. It is the advertising of products, in particular, that has raised the ire of many of Big Pharma's critics. Most countries allow the advertising of over-the-counter medicines, but only the United States and New Zealand allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription drugs on television, although the government of New Zealand is reportedly reconsidering its laws. Advertising that ends with the phrase "tell your doctor" led comedian and social commentator Bill Maher to remark, "Shouldn't your doctor tell you what drugs you need? If you tell your doctor, isn't he just a dealer at that point?"
Some of the issues that concerned Dr Arthur Kanev came to a head in 2009, when he was diagnosed with skin cancer. He discovered that his own doctors would not follow the traditional treatment protocols that they regularly, and unhesitatingly, recommended to their patients. It led him to develop a treatment protocol of his own, and today he identifies himself as a self-cured cancer survivor and advocates for non-traditional forms of cancer treatment.
Sources:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Big_Pharma
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-I-Beat-4-Cancers&id=8919104