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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #336742 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 234 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781933368399
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A Thrilling Read
Pfizer: Hypocrisy is Our Life's Work

As a Pfizer employee, I am extremely upset by the facts laid out in Dr. Rost's book 'The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman.' I had previously `drank the Pfizer blue kool-aid.' An example: Pfizer has a number of 'values' and 'leader behaviors' printed on expensive, colorful posters and on cardboard mobiles which hang throughout the hallways of it's skyscrapers and campus buildings. To think these values and leader behaviors are just for the little people--the rank and file worker--and that top Pfizer executives and management who strive to be promoted to the executive ranks are above ethical behavior will forever change how I view Pfizer. Pfizer's corporate tag line is "Life is our life's work." After reading Dr. Rost's book, they ought to scratch out the word `life' and add the word `hypocrisy' in there somewhere. If Dr. Rost's thrilling new book is true, I'm thoroughly disgusted by Pfizer's behavior towards honest employees.

A Real Page Turner!
This is a fascinating read, very credibly told. It is really a business thriller, especially for anyone familiar with the workings of large corporations, a sort of David and Goliath epic. I picked it up to read the first chapter and literally could not put it down for about the first 130 pages, cliché notwithstanding. It moves fast, develops characters nicely and retains suspense as the story expands. For a book about business it provide a lot of action in a way that gives you insight into the drug industry, the greed of large drug corporations and their CEOs, the behavior of people in large organizations, the role of government institutions, big legal & PR firms and the media - and it does all of this not only painlessly but also interestingly. Quite a ride!

I think the review below titled "Don't Take Him Seriously" was written by someone who either did not read the book or who is a shill for the drug industry; when I checked his two other reviews each give one star and panned books about "Big Pharma". So I would not give much credence to that review. You will love reading this book and learn something along the way. Peter Rost deserves praise for his courage, ability to tell a story and for providing a revealing look inside big drug corporations.

Too bad this rating system goes only to 5 stars!
This book was a pleasant surprise. I expected an expose' of dangerous shortcuts in clinical trials and FDA submissions by the drug industry, but I found something else. An extremely entertaining (yet disturbing) story about how Pfizer -- one of the world's largest prescription drug manufacturers -- tried to stomp on an executive who first tried to right the wrongs of the company's marketing techniques, and failing that, tried to undermine that executive's efforts to disclose the problem to federal authorities (which by federal law he was required to do, or go to jail).

It all began when the company that Pfizer bought (Pharmacia) began marketing a drug for non-FDA-approved uses, which is highly illegal and could indeed kill people. And it may have, we just don't know. Rost's book is one of the few that, once I started reading, I couldn't put down until I finished it. A rarity for me. Thanks to all of the Peter Rosts of the world who put integrity above profit -- but to Pfizer, shame on you.