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A Reuters’ story tells about John Kopchinski, a Gulf War veteran from Texas who later became a disgruntled sales representative for Pfizer. John found Pfizer’s sales tactics hard to swallow. As he explains it:
"In the Army I was expected to protect people at all costs....At Pfizer I was expected to increase profits at all costs, even when sales meant endangering lives.”
Unable to live down to Pfizer’s ethics, he blew the whistle on ‘em.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
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Important story, Diane. We should keep in mind the part about life becoming "hellish" for those who become whistleblowers. And also that, for a variety of reasons, only a tiny fraction of them end up yielding either actions against companies or reward for themselves.
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