Battling Healthcare

It was revealed this week in documents released by Merck over the Vioxx debacle that we were all scammed — patients, doctors, stockholders and legitimate drug researchers.

If you aren’t familiar with the Merck and Vioxx scandal, let me bring you up to date.

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We used to see the ads on TV. Your cholesterol goes out of whack because of two things: cholesterol from the food you eat, and genetic cholesterol problems. So, being the good and wise patient you were, you discussed the subject with your doctor and he or she suggested Vytorin. Why? Because it was said to battle both types of cholesterol. And that can help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Turns out that those clever marketers at both Shering Plough and Merck — the manufacturers of the components of Vytorin — had us all fooled. Billions of dollars later (yes — I mean billions!) they announced that — oops! Vytorin not only doesn’t work to reduce cholesterol and protect us from heart attacks and strokes, but it might even cause us additional cholesterol problems, worse than we had before we took the drug!

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