I recently read an article about pharmaceutical corporations and the profit revenues due to
increased illness among the population titled, "Is Big Pharma Addicted To Fraud?", written by
Ericka Kelton (2013, Forbes). It revealed the billion-dollar fraud that Glaxo (a pharmaceutical
brand) paid $3 billion to the Chinese government in 2013 to resolve the penal, civil and criminal
case against them, sell medicines for unapproved treatments, and without any core basis of
clinical trials, to the general population. The same pharmaceutical has paid $750 million for
similar charges and the Puerto Rican government this time. This raised a sincere curiosity in me
about the medicines we consume. Does each medication in the pharmacy have gone through
rigorous clinical trials before the general population's mass consumption? How much is the
actual cost of manufacturing the pills, and at what price are these pills being sold? What is the
annual profit revenue of the major pharmaceuticals?
And last but not least, are pharmaceuticals creating customers or curing illness? To further
research on this topic, I am exploring documents that resonate with a similar theme. I came
across the famous 'The Big Pharma' documentary. I relied on qualitative approaches as a research
tool for this topic of interest.
The Big Pharma documentary is a reflective scientific visual that exposes how pharmaceuticals
create customers rather than cure. This pharmaceutical corporation works on creating illness and
the medicines for its consumption, rather than healing the body. The most common mode of
strategy they use to profit over our health is developing a disease, its list of symptoms,
marketing, and branding their medicines for consumption. The research revealed that the
corporation views a healthy body as a decrement of profit, and hence, the focus is always on the
disease rather than cure. The medicines' branding is often misleading and unbalanced as it
neglects the side effects and proper clinical trials on tested subjects before it reaches the
consumption market. They work in a strong association with medical doctors. These
pharmaceuticals offer branded apparatus to medical graduates, thereby creating a long-term
unholy connection of greed and profit. The investors in Big Pharma often include wealthy elites,
medical agencies, and governments. This determines that people who are in power to work for
the people are functioning against them. I was shocked to see the documentary. What I wondered
after watching this documentary is how modernity has failed us. The profiting venturing case of
Big Pharma is a global investment of creating disease and medicine. Modernization has shifted
its paradigm from indigenous herbs as a model of health care to pills (which contain harmful
chemicals). The ordinary population becomes the guinea pig for clinical trials, testing of
diseases, and its medicines.
My perception and understanding of pharma have changed drastically after doing the research. I
concluded that what we consume is not therapeutic; instead, it reflects the crony capitalism and
lack of transparency in our healthcare system. The pharmaceutical industry often uses direct-to-
consumer advertising, which should not be legal. There is no scientific research that shows a
positive correlation between adverts and successful treatment in the early provision of
discomfort. Not only this, these adverts do not provide in-depth knowledge about their
increased illness among the population titled, "Is Big Pharma Addicted To Fraud?", written by
Ericka Kelton (2013, Forbes). It revealed the billion-dollar fraud that Glaxo (a pharmaceutical
brand) paid $3 billion to the Chinese government in 2013 to resolve the penal, civil and criminal
case against them, sell medicines for unapproved treatments, and without any core basis of
clinical trials, to the general population. The same pharmaceutical has paid $750 million for
similar charges and the Puerto Rican government this time. This raised a sincere curiosity in me
about the medicines we consume. Does each medication in the pharmacy have gone through
rigorous clinical trials before the general population's mass consumption? How much is the
actual cost of manufacturing the pills, and at what price are these pills being sold? What is the
annual profit revenue of the major pharmaceuticals?
And last but not least, are pharmaceuticals creating customers or curing illness? To further
research on this topic, I am exploring documents that resonate with a similar theme. I came
across the famous 'The Big Pharma' documentary. I relied on qualitative approaches as a research
tool for this topic of interest.
The Big Pharma documentary is a reflective scientific visual that exposes how pharmaceuticals
create customers rather than cure. This pharmaceutical corporation works on creating illness and
the medicines for its consumption, rather than healing the body. The most common mode of
strategy they use to profit over our health is developing a disease, its list of symptoms,
marketing, and branding their medicines for consumption. The research revealed that the
corporation views a healthy body as a decrement of profit, and hence, the focus is always on the
disease rather than cure. The medicines' branding is often misleading and unbalanced as it
neglects the side effects and proper clinical trials on tested subjects before it reaches the
consumption market. They work in a strong association with medical doctors. These
pharmaceuticals offer branded apparatus to medical graduates, thereby creating a long-term
unholy connection of greed and profit. The investors in Big Pharma often include wealthy elites,
medical agencies, and governments. This determines that people who are in power to work for
the people are functioning against them. I was shocked to see the documentary. What I wondered
after watching this documentary is how modernity has failed us. The profiting venturing case of
Big Pharma is a global investment of creating disease and medicine. Modernization has shifted
its paradigm from indigenous herbs as a model of health care to pills (which contain harmful
chemicals). The ordinary population becomes the guinea pig for clinical trials, testing of
diseases, and its medicines.
My perception and understanding of pharma have changed drastically after doing the research. I
concluded that what we consume is not therapeutic; instead, it reflects the crony capitalism and
lack of transparency in our healthcare system. The pharmaceutical industry often uses direct-to-
consumer advertising, which should not be legal. There is no scientific research that shows a
positive correlation between adverts and successful treatment in the early provision of
discomfort. Not only this, these adverts do not provide in-depth knowledge about their
