more-inEveryone is very upset about a private hospital making 525% profit on syringes, which seems a little unfair. The medical profession has always been shady. Until the mid-fifties, doctors were endorsing cigarettes (‘Throat doctors vote Old Gold is best for your throat!’). One of the first commercial applications of radium was in Radium Hand Cleaner, which promised to ‘remove everything but the skin’. So there’s no point getting upset about 500% mark-ups on syringes.

Source: The Hindu December 11, 2017 03:45 UTC