This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! If you have read this newsletter for any period of time, you’ve read my accounts of how pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has been using extremely shady marketing practices (many taken from the playbook that Purdue Pharma used to push oxycontin) to promote their drugs for weight loss. Things like
I cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post because they keep publishing "articles" about how glorious Wegovy/Ozempic is and how it should be covered by all insurances so everyone can take this "wonder drug" that is of course completely safe [because they never discuss the serious, life-threatening side effects of the med]. The last one actually pulled out the old "going back to old bad habits" BS when talking about the weight regain that happens when you stop taking the drug. [Not that NN wants you to stop taking a drug they're charging $$$$ for.]
Also can we take a moment to marvel over how their marketing department thought actors who pretend to be doctors on tv were the best people to market their next blockbuster? I mean, the bar they use to justify this junk science is LOW.
Pharma companies have sponsored grand rounds for years, and I’m so relieved that they’re finally getting called out for it. Pharma brands should not be putting their names on medical education.
I cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post because they keep publishing "articles" about how glorious Wegovy/Ozempic is and how it should be covered by all insurances so everyone can take this "wonder drug" that is of course completely safe [because they never discuss the serious, life-threatening side effects of the med]. The last one actually pulled out the old "going back to old bad habits" BS when talking about the weight regain that happens when you stop taking the drug. [Not that NN wants you to stop taking a drug they're charging $$$$ for.]
Wow, this was a wild ride. Incredible.
Also can we take a moment to marvel over how their marketing department thought actors who pretend to be doctors on tv were the best people to market their next blockbuster? I mean, the bar they use to justify this junk science is LOW.
Pharma companies have sponsored grand rounds for years, and I’m so relieved that they’re finally getting called out for it. Pharma brands should not be putting their names on medical education.
Or patient education, for that matter.
How do they sleep at night? So evil!