More Gwen Olsen, the enlightened ex-pharma rep
March 7, 2008 by giannakali
About This Video (from Psychetruth)
Added: March 07, 2008
Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out - Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness.
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature’s Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.
The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American’s medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.
Visit Gwen’s Website here.
This video was produced by Psychetruth
It’s a message that can’t be repeated too much. Thanks for sharing.
It makes me want to come off Lithium even more.
there are more of her videos on youtube and her website…she is a great advocate and speaker. She has withdrawal stories too—benzos and antidepressants.
It’s always hard to know what to do when it comes to this stuff. It’s scary to stay on drugs and scary to come off—especially if its been years.
Wow, good stuff! Now if we could just have an Eli Lilly lawyer pull a Michael Clayton!
I loved that Michael Clayton movie.
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Great points, lots to explore here.
Great to see this posted, this information is life saving .
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