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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. The above study, funded by Forest Pharmaceuticals, quickly boosted the sales of Celexa to depressed children and teens.

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How Great Workplaces Measure the ROI of Internships

Great Place to Work

Combine that limited supply with a massive uptick in applicants, as reported by RippleMatch , and business leaders are missing an important opportunity. Are fewer companies hiring interns? With an unpredictable economic landscape before them and in the wake of layoffs, many companies were unable to onboard interns.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

Moynihan’s research and writing focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on how diseases are created, branded, and marketed to unsuspecting people. For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. I started writing books.

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How Great Leaders Help Employees Connect to Purpose

Great Place to Work

At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Bell Ringing ceremony is held to celebrate important milestones in the development of treatment of diseases. At Jackson Healthcare , employees are asked on their first day at the company about the kinds of service that would be most rewarding for them.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3.