My opinion of the 2 articles

After reading through the article "Abbott rapped for pulling drugs out of thailand", I think that there is no absolute right or wrong for the both sides. Abbott trying to pull drugs out of thailand, is because they want to stop these people from producing copy-cat drugs from their original drugs. Besides this reason, these copy-cat drugs does not go through any clinical trial test, nor any processes that is required before producing drugs. Therefore, this drugs is consider not as safe, and it might not appear to be as effective as the original drugs to the patients.

On the hand, those people in thailand start to produce their own copy-cat drugs, mainly due to a reason that they were unable to afford all those expensive original drugs. Thailand is considered to be one of the poor country. Since they cannot afford the original drugs, the only way out for them is to combine a few content of the drugs, and produce their own copy-cat drugs, for people in their country.

Since the drugs company, have to go through lots of clinical trial and processes, before putting it on the shelf, thus it is impossible for them to lower the price of the drugs further. The only way not to affect either sides, govenment can consider to provide incentives for the poor people in buying the drugs.

The other article that i would like to talk, is about "pushing drugs". I fully agreed with the article that illness are "created". Then from there the pharmeutical companies, can start to do research on drugs to "cure" the illness, and in turn earn money from from there.

For example, sometimes people just cannot get into their sleeps. These pharmaceutical compines kind of going through some research and realise that there is this kind of problems with people. So, they when to develop a drug to solve these people problem, and called it a sleeping pill. From then, once people cant go into their sleep, probably somethings are bothering in their minds, they will turn to these pills.

The Newspaper Article

After reading through the article, i fully agree that somtimes a new illness can just strike, and nobody knows how does it come about, and how to cure it. During this kind of crictical crisis, there will be lots of casualties seeking for medical help and treament. However, when everybody around round the world is consuming the same kind of medcine, it will surely come to a time where there is a shortage of medical supply. Therefore it is impossible for us to saves all life. At these kind of situation, sometimes we have to make decision like, who should we save.

Knowing that this is a very cruel act for those causalties association to compile the list of who should be saved first. Usually this kind of list will be those older people and peolpe who are more serious. If you really consider, do you think these life are worth saving for the society? This might be a very selfish kind of thinking, but when you come across this kind of situation, you have no other choice. Saving those elderly, cannot really say that its not worth saving. They need more medical treatment, than the young ones, since they are weaker.More medical treatment = more financial requirement.

What do you think pharmaceutical companies obligations are and to who?

When we start to talk about pharmaceutical companies, what will be the first thing that comes to your mind? For me personally, it will reminds me of medcine...a few things like doing R & D regards to the medcine that the company are going to produce, maunfacting of the medcine, as well as sales of the medcine. All companies have an obligation, it is like a binding promise that they have, depending on the field which the company is in. These days there are alot of pharmaceutical companies setting up, and almost all of the parmaceutical companies have a common aim of saving life.

However, while thinking of saving life they forget that not all people are able to afford the high price medcine that they are producing, esp for people living in those poorer areas, like cambodia.

Among the few phamaceutical companies website that i had look through, i think that this company, Sandoz, is consider to be quite outstanding compared to the rest. Sandoz develops, produces and markets medicines that are no longer protected by patents, along with pharmaceutical and biotechnological active substances. This company produce a hugh range of products, within which the cardiovascular system and anti-infectives are particular areas of focus.It does not only care about the saving of life(like any other phamaceutical companies), it also care for those poor people around, by making all these medcine affordable for the world wide.

Afterall, i think that this is a correct way that all pharmaceutical companies should be looking at. Since they want to save life, it cant be possible for them to save those rich people. Saving people is a general thing, if they really want to save life, they should put those poor people into the consideration, and make it affordable for all.