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It is pointed out in the passage that drug companies ----.
General levels of health in developed societies
have steadily improved over the last hundred
years or so, largely because of the introduction
of public health services, and, indeed, the
welfare state. This progress, however, seems
to bear little relationship to the delivery of
medicine. While scientific medicine has
generated some solutions, it has also
produced deadly problems. Crucially, it has led
to a virtual takeover of healthcare by
pharmaceutical corporations and an
acceptance that pharmaceutical medicine is
primary and best. Yet the extent of the damage
done by drugs is enormous. In the US in 2000
it was estimated that there were over two
million severe adverse drug reactions, of which
106,000 were fatal. Similar calculations
suggest that in England, adverse drug
reactions are the third most common cause of
death. Drug companies have always supported
clinical medicine. Medicine's high-ranking
professional bodies were themselves set up
with help from pharmaceutical companies, and
still receive grants for running costs,
hospitality, building and printing. Given this
funding, is it surprising that reports sponsored
by such bodies so often criticize the use of
vitamins, food supplements, nutritional and
alternative medicine? Today, however, the
corporatization of medicine is gaining speed
and reaches far beyond the professional
institutions of medicine.