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After thinking about that last post, I tried to sit in Neal Parker’s of AbbVie’s shoes and feel his perspective. AbbVie sued when a rival petitioned for their clinical trial data. One of the tools of empathy is to try to think of a situation in your own life that matches the position of the person you can’t understand. I thought of one. After I left home, my father rose in his company to a high management position in a huge textile mill. I once came home for a visit, and he was in something of a state, the phone ringing off the hook. It seemed that a large group of Japanese Textile people were visiting his plant the next week. My Dad and his colleagues were carefully mapping out a tour through this huge facility that avoided any contact with any newer or mission critical processes. He explained that these visits were a ruse, and they went back to Japan and reproduced what they had seen so as to compete in the market. I had no reason to doubt what he said, but returned to medical school with an even stronger resolve to avoid the world of business at all costs – a lesson already well learned. I think that’s the mind set of Mr. Parker as he speaks in that meeting. My conclusion from this empathic connection? Mr. Parker should be in the Textile Industry, not a Pharmaceutical Company. What he says is outrageous, and perhaps a window into a major aspect of our current problems [even if he’s right about his rivals].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After thinking about that last post, I tried to sit in Neal Parker’s of AbbVie’s shoes and feel his perspective. AbbVie sued when a rival petitioned for their clinical trial data. One of the tools of empathy is to try to think of a situation in your own life that matches the position of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39765,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions\/39765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}