Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.
In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
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