Does anyone ever feel morally or ethically conflicted working in this space? Serious question.

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Not me, but would like to learn the reasons for those how do.

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I do not personally feel conflicted. I feel very lucky to be able to contribute to work in this space.

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Not really, I'm mostly in early stage oncology so making cancer patients live longer feels pretty worthwhile

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Ditto

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No, I also view it in a way if I don’t work in this industry than someone else will. Yes pricing for these drugs may be overpriced but think about how many hours & money go into R&D. Then moving that to large scale manufacturing which is a lot of money for raw materials. I do believe the drugs being manufactured are making a difference in patients for the better. Unless your making opioids like someone else mentioned haha.

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In the rare disease space.. few drug developers would attempt to tackle the indications we are targeting. Affordability of the drugs if they ever make it to market is a different story, however.

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Not if you maintain your integrity. Sometimes it helps to take a step back and remind yourself what the black and white of things are.

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If you worked at Purdue or other opioid maybe. I did feel a bit guilty working as a consultant in pricing - really upsetting how the US payers really don't do enough to control the cost. Now that I'm in BD at a biotech I do wonder if my work is truly meaningful outside of having a big $$ attached to deals and maybe making some drugs more accessible. But not quite guilty

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I do. Sometimes I see things that make me goes “should I really do this”? or “I know this isn’t right to any human beings”. But I sometimes you can’t do anything currently since it seem like most companies are the same in work ethic.

I’ve really thought about this. I worked as a clinical trial coordinator for 5 years and have applied to CROs as well as directly w pharma companies. I haven’t ever been able to get anywhere with it. I just figured it’s not meant for me to get back into pharma research and have thought about if I would feel guilty working for someone like Pfizer.

Referrals are often the best way to get in when making the transition from non corp settings

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