This story has just taken the rage level up another notch. I thank my parents for not raising me on drugs, choosing instead the tried and true centuries old nature based ayurvedic medicine.
Here is an excert from Lawrence Goodman's article (original) for those of you who just want the gyst of it:
Kathleen Turner was on television recently talking about her pain and suffering. "The damage that I have, the damage I'll always have could have been prevented," the actress told "Good Morning, America" host Diane Sawyer on Feb. 19. Sawyer was sympathetic. Turner, she knew from a previous interview, had been battling rheumatoid arthritis for over a year now.
"You're still in pain?" Sawyer asked.
"Well," Turner responded, "as they say: only when you walk."
Turner then went on to mention a Web site, www.ra-access.com, where fellow sufferers could get help. Sawyer eagerly repeated the site's address in case viewers missed it.
All of this would have been your standard bit of early-morning show chitchat if Turner had not been paid by two drug companies to speak out about her illness. "She gets a fee," confirms Robin Shapiro, a spokeswoman for Immunex, a bio-pharmaceutical company, which along with Wyeth, funded a media campaign for which Turner was hired to do a number of TV and print interviews.
Boy do I have some choice words for Immunex's marketing department and the rest of the sick cult they belong to.
P.S. Free slurpees at 7-11 today. Its their 75th anniversary.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at July 11, 2002 01:31 PM