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  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism when people dealing with medical conditions:

    This is bad for business

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    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      My father told a story years back, in his field (chemistry) of someone stumbling across treatment for a disease using a common, widely available, and relatively inexpensive drug

      The guy got blacklisted from working at universities and his paper buried

      Years later (20 years?), it became discovered/commonly known

      This is something the pharma industry does itself, it doesn't need any outside help

    • Scew [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Why cure anything when you can milk insurance for treatments for whatever it is for the rest of someone's life?

      • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        This has permeated the medical/pharmaceutical industry so much that it affects the way we conceive of disease. It's most pronounced in mental health.