I Should Write a Blog

I've been posting to Facebook with some frequency the past few weeks, my latest post drew a casual comment about "thanks for the blog" and then my daughter chimed in with a "you should write a blog."

This is my first attempt, playing with the google blogger tools to see what I see. This is very much a work in progress, well really more of an experiment, to see what I shall see.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

John Oliver v Big Pharma



John Oliver on a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, did another really good piece, this time on Big Pharma and their practice of sending young, pretty, people to buy influence with our doctors.


A key element of it was advertising the existence of another government web site listing lots of doctors: openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.  This one provides a glimpse into payments made by pharmacutical companies to doctors for lunches, entertainment, education, or just plain old brides, oops I meant honorariums and travel.