Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Letters Community pharmacy

Appalling bias

BMJ 2010; 340 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c2880 (Published 28 May 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2880

Rapid Response:

The Sicker They Are The Bigger The Yacht

Mr. Martin's letter is rather revealing.
Of course a business like a pharmacy is, by design, a profit-making
enterprise.

What we, if we were living in a less imperfect world, would be
entitled to object to is that there is such a thing as the Sickness
Industry which includes anyone employed in the field, be it Big Pharma,
Community Pharmacia or the Covered Wagon Screeners.

All working people are deserving of a wage and no one would begrudge
them that.

The point overlooked or unknown to Mr. Martin is that there ought to
be no conflict-of-interest-driven profit extracted from the downtrodden
and the sick, something that is shaming us all as human beings.

Geographically, this varies in severity of course, to this writer it
looks as if the UK has come very close to the USA now.

Competing interests:
None declared

Competing interests: No competing interests

08 June 2010
Dr. Herbert H. Nehrlich
Semi-Retired
Australia