To become a pediatrician in my country, you need 5 years of training and 2 years of specialization in at least two institutions. But sure, pediatrician training is "molded and funded by pharma"? How can you believe this shit?
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My mom is a pediatrician in Europe and her entire career she’s been flown to exotic locations, wined and dined at the best hotels and restaurants on the dime of pharmaceutical companies. The silent agreement of course is, I exchange you will prescribe our latest and greatest product. How can you not believe this shit?
Vaccines are not greatest and latest products. Food supplements, skin creams and biological drugs is where pharma makes money.
Sure. Pharma doesn’t profit from vaccines. lol.
Nope. At least not from the ones you're mentioning for your kids that have been patent-free for quite some time now.
I was about to say that maybe there's more pharma funding of doctors in the US than Europe, but based on nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7ctvvahjuat50phjummwv5q35amnwvaz7tmrv968xarjwgh8xampwfkhxarj9e3k7mgqyrcmjyd0r3a9vpe78wpm5l42dq2xwpqwp7aa6fj5gk4gpejuyaxzy06fp23 's note, maybe not!
One of the biggest children's hospitals in the US - also a huge teaching school - is part of the University of Pennsylvania. Penn has made tens of millions of dollars on royalties from the covid vaccine alone. The hospital itself has multi-million dollar contracts with Pfizer, with Bayer, with a company called Resilience (biomanufacturing), with Spark Therapeutics .
Penn has collaborative contracts with Novartis, Pfizer and RVAC and BioNTech.
In many pediatric practices, insurance providers offer bonuses to doctors for vaccine target rates among the children.
And as Lebanese Hodl pointed out - and I've heard from friends who are doctors - there's a whole lot of wining and dining of doctors by pharma reps. One of my friends told me about the conferences and then added "I could go out to a fancy steak dinner every single night."
Sadly, most medicine as it is currently practiced is so intertwined with pharma that it's hard to imagine that doctors can make independent judgement and decisions.