Big Pharma's Ghostwritten Prescriptions
(Still losing the bigger drug war - I)

What's this malarkey about doctors' handwriting?
Their scratchings can't be read without help from a hen?
We ought to wake up to what Big Pharma's doing
To keep doctors from needing to write with a pen.

They're preprinting prescriptions they've prepared in advance,
Using the same copywriters they hired
To ghostwrite professional sounding endorsements,
Thus increasing the sales of the drugs they "admired."

Can Big Pharma protect itself from imitations?
The ones they dread most are the cheap substitutes.
But will hiring the very same faux academics
To ghostwrite prescriptions help win class action suits?

And are faux academics Big Pharma's best choices?
So many are not really all that well qualified,
Plus who believes doctors won't mix their preprinted
Prescription pads? They'll be the same size. That's the downside.

So when will the Medical-Industrial complex
Develop machines to replace Big Pharma's pads?
Or will they end up like that creep with his pledges
Just one more of those costly Republican fads?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
On Twitter @PBoondoggles
6/26/11

To 'Scientific Literature Has Become Part
       of Big Pharma's Marketing Machine'

To 'Avaricious Drugmakers Verses'
To 'Devious Doctors Verses'
To 'Barry Goldwater Lost'
To 'Medical-Industrial Complex Verses'
To 'Nanny Norquist's Pledge Verses'
To 'Big Pharma's Ghostwritten Promotions' Verse



6/26/11