Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out

August 28, 2010

Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out – Pharma Not in Business of Health,

Healing, Cures, Wellness.

Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such

healthcare giants as & , Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott

Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several

conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in

every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as

both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After

leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry

first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales

Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health

consultant.

The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate,

even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on

health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our

health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized

nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the

third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more

lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from

medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety.

But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical

manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result

is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!

Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine

cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education

would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.

Visit Gwen's Website at

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