Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever

By Kathleen Sharp

Blood Feud opponents A Civil Action for most sensible non-fiction e-book of the previous twenty years.” — John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling writer of Damage

Procrit looked like a biotech miracle, promising a golden age in clinical care. constructed within the Eighties by means of Amgen and certified to the pharmaceutical great, Johnson & Johnson, the drug (AKA Epogen and Aranesp) quickly generated billions in annual revenue—and nonetheless does.  In 2012, international well-known bike owner, Olympian, and journey de France champion Lance Armstrong was once banned from expert biking on doping fees for utilizing EPO (the blanket identify for the medication Procrit and Epogen), leading to a world controversy approximately abuse, substantial pharmaceutical businesses, and the lies and inaccuracies bearing on performance-enhancing drugs.

Mark Duxbury was once a J&J salesman who as soon as believed within the blood-booster, surroundings list revenues and successful corporation awards. Then Duxbury began to research unsavory truths approximately Procrit and J&J’s company practices. He used to be fired and filed a whistleblower go well with to warn the general public.

When Jan Schlichtman (A Civil Action) realized of Duxbury’s campaign, he signed on. Now, he’s struggling with on behalf of melanoma sufferers and for each American who trusts tremendous Pharma along with his lifestyles.

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For dessert, they watched bakers in crimson aprons rake apartments of scorching fudge. eventually, they gravitated towards the Ferris wheel, an incredible circle magically lit via a string of stars. on the most sensible, while the boy wasn’t taking a look, Duxbury kissed his mom complete at the mouth. weeks later, he requested her to marry him. HER eyes spitting flames, her nostrils flaring, an workplace assistant for a shopper slammed McClellan into the wall of the doctor’s place of work, inflicting the placing images to rattle. The henna-haired girl should have been six inches shorter than McClellan, yet at a hundred and eighty kilos she had the neck and shoulders to throw him to the floor. She was once screaming, poking her stubby finger into his chest again and again, as horrified sufferers regarded on. “Is this the way you deal with your huge consumers, hotshot? ” she yelled. a number of sufferers within the doctor’s ready room gasped loudly and some stood up and slowly subsidized clear of the scene. however the lady appeared oblivious to their fears, and hurled her phrases at her objective. “If this is often the way you deal with us, I’ll simply take my company to Amgen! ” McClellan winced. “Calm down a minute, will you? What are you conversing approximately? ” “We are not”—hard poke—“getting our money”—harder poke—“like you said”—stabbing pain—“we would,” she barked, jabbing her fork-finger at his bony sternum. “And,” she further, her face inches from his, “We’re now not purchasing to any extent further rattling Procrit until eventually we get reimbursed for what we’ve already acquired. ” Their eyes locked. He held his breath. “Okay. Let’s speak. ” She holstered her finger. McClellan exhaled. He then stepped into the hoop and achieved a number of quick, formal strikes that helped him stay away from yet one more charging bull. Ortho’s national off-label crusade used to be squeezing a few of his consumers, and he came across that insurers resembling Medicare weren’t continually reimbursing them for Procrit’s new unapproved dosage. indignant consumers from Yuma to Clifton have been complaining approximately this, forcing McClellan to stand down a possible stampede. One prized shopper used to be Dr. Nafees Nagy, founding father of the Nevada melanoma middle in Las Vegas, who had bought approximately $800,000 worthy of Ortho’s drug. in keeping with McClellan’s revenues pitch, Nagy had anticipated to be paid at the least $1 million from Medicare. yet over many years, and regardless of their repeated makes an attempt, the place of work nonetheless hadn’t gotten a cent. “And the health care professional is actually pissed at you,” one among Nagy’s staffers confided. That didn’t sound correct to McClellan. He knew that a few of his medical professionals have been getting paid by way of Medicare for his or her injectable medicines, even for the excessive doses. yet Medicare didn’t frequently pay for off-label treatments that weren’t thought of “reasonable and necessary . . . in keeping with approved standards,” and the 40,000-unit pictures weren't the permitted typical. as a matter of fact that Medicare funds have been selected a neighborhood now not nationwide foundation, and a few Medicare workplaces have been extra lenient than others. McClellan suspected that the compensation challenge lay within Nagy’s workplace. He requested to look at the books. the girl led him into her place of work. She pulled out the ledger and flipped it open.

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