Week Two

I just read the article about Vytorin, and I don't know what I think about it. I don't have much expertise in the PR field or about pharmaceutical companies, so this entry is mostly based on my personal feelings. I just know it made me feel disgusted.

I know there are always two sides, if not more, to a story. I'm just trying to understand this drug company's motives and hope to God that there is more wisdom and information and value to their current advertising tactics than merely bringing in more money.

It makes me so uneasy to read things like this. It makes me sick to think that corporations throw their personal and comapny morals out the window for monetary profit.

This article told me that morals are in the shadows of money, and to one day be a part of something like that scares me. I know that people in those companies know that what they're doing is wrong. I can't imagine that they think otherwise. I wonder if they feel trapped in their own bodies, because i can't imagine any of those people have a clear conscience with this issue.

I refuse to believe that people are heartless. I know that people who have been involved in this cover up have lost sleep and been in a type of emotional turmoil. I just wonder what it's like for them. I wonder how hard it would've been to be stand up and go against the grain, risking their careers and reputation and so forth. I'd like to believe that I would have been that person. I just wonder what's still covered up and what has gone on behind closed doors the past two years.