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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

D octors are not trained to think critically. My fellow students and I started our first year ‘pre-clinical’ training with 4 ½ days a week of lectures. By the end of the training, when I finally qualified as a doctor, I was exhausted. After all, they were highly trained, highly skilled doctors involved in research.

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AstraZeneca Offices – London

Office Snapshots

Ekho Studio has completed a 7,000 sq ft office design for pharmaceutical company Alexion, recently acquired by AstraZeneca. The business lounge is comprised of a small hospitality space, an informal meeting lounge and quiet pods with a large 16-person flexible training and meeting room.

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Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott

Mad in America

An influential voice in bioethics, Elliott is known for his critical examination of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. You’ve written about how medical training trains a person not to be able to see abuse. Elliott : What you have to understand about medical training is that when you begin it, you know nothing.

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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. With the constant layoffs, corporate mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical market, and rise in the compensation standards, many businesses have also adopted an outsourcing business model. Development in Technology.

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Where’s Your Visitor?

The Receptionist

And if you produce pharmaceuticals or electronics, you must keep those environments sterile. Manufacturing Visitor Check-In When you hire an employee, you likely train them on safety first. Safety Training Ensure all visitors know the proper safety protocols and security procedures.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

The cost to hire, train and onboard sales reps is drastically reduced, allowing the business partner to do the legwork required for the sale, while the IT company focuses on end-customer needs and support.