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Peter Rost, M.D., is a former Pfizer Marketing Vice President providing services as a marketing expert, speaker and writer. He is the author of Emergency Surgery, The Whistleblower and Killer Drug. You can reach him on rostpeter (insert symbol) hotmail.com. Please read the terms of use agreement and privacy policy for this blog carefully and note that even if this blog sometimes covers serious topics it is mostly closer to Saturday Night Live than 60 Minutes.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Hope You Have a Terrific Lawyer . . .

A just received an e-mail from a reader which I want to share:

I came across your blog on Huffingtonpost.com today.

Thanks for fighting the good fight for the American people, exposing the truth.

I saw your article about all the law firms reading your blog. As a court employee, I recognize many of the names of major law firms. I am guessing these are not the lawyers that the Bush administration would love to put out of business.

Whistle blowers and truth disseminators are patriots, and you have my admiration and respect.

Best of luck with your lawsuit. Hope you have a terrific lawyer.

Dear writer: Thank you for your kind words. And yes, I do have a terrific lawyer. And I do find it amazing with all those law firms reading my blog. Actually, the number of law firms coming here have exploded. I should do a new blog about that.

1 Comments:

MsMelody said...: Peter--

Thanks for keeping us abreast of your good fight. If, perchance, any of those lawyers visiting your site truly seek a battle against Big Pharma's more widespread wrongdoing (not to trivialize wrongdoings against single individuals) which include market manipulation, dangerous FDA-approved drugs, and corporate deniability for wrongs done, please direct them my way.

Keep up the good work.; 6/09/2006

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THE PETER ROST BLOG

By Lee Howard, The Day, CT If Pfizer Inc. were to describe its worst nightmare, it might very well be seeing former company whistleblower Peter Rost become commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. So guess who is actively seeking the FDA's top post? Rost, a former Pfizer vice president who turned whistleblower after he alleged that a subsidiary of the company started promoting off-label uses of various drugs, not only is in the running for FDA commissioner, but he has at least two congressmen in his corner. This week, the Web site Pharmalot reported that U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, would be sending a letter of recommendation for Rost as well as several other candidates for the post. Rost also has picked up support from U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who has been involved in many investigations of the FDA. ”I encourage you to seek meaningful reform of the FDA, which begins with a complete change in the FDA's leadership,” Stupak wrote in a letter to president-elect Obama endorsing Rost's candidacy. Rost said he is looking for a shakeup of the FDA, including a reorienting of the agency's priorities from serving the drug industry to helping American citizens. ”That means the agency would focus not only on the fastest and most efficient processing of new drug applications, but would also ensure that unsafe drugs are taken off the market or labeling (is) revised in a more timely manner,” Rost said in an interview this week with eDrugSearch. com, which endorsed his candidacy. Some of Rost's most controversial stances include his views on reimportation of drugs from Canada, which he approves, and his opposition to direct-to-consumer advertising. ”DTC advertising is not part of a 'free market' - it is part of manipulation of consumers who don't know better and doctors who give the patient whatever they ask for,” Rost said. Pfizer fired Rost in 2005 after it became known that the marketing executive's allegations about off-label promotion of drugs had led to a criminal investigation against the company. Rost went on to write a bestseller about his experiences, titled “The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman,” which detailed payouts to doctors, marketing drugs to children and various illegal and unethical activities he said he witnessed.