{"id":7378,"date":"2008-07-14T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/fda-intern-gets-her-bonus\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:24:41","slug":"fda-intern-gets-her-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/fda-intern-gets-her-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Intern Gets Her Bonus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CBS News story &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/07\/10\/eveningnews\/main4250102.shtml?source=mostpop_story\">FDA Execs Reap Lavish Bonuses<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; 28 senior FDA executives took in a combined $1 million in bonuses last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve done such a miserable job these last two years, I think they should leave! Not get bonuses of $40,000 [to] $50,000!&#8221; Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said. &#8220;Good grief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are talking about here is the need to have highly experienced, highly capable technical experts that, without which, the country would suffer,&#8221; said FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These should be referred to not as retention bonuses but blackmail bonuses,&#8221; said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste.<\/p>\n<p>All this has not gone unnoticed by Emily, the intern at FDA, as we document in this installment of FDA INTERN!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ZiPiXEv_Q_g\/SHuk-VYBN6I\/AAAAAAAABRY\/gytVdHkgMCA\/s1600-h\/FDAIntern_logo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_ZiPiXEv_Q_g\/SHuk-VYBN6I\/AAAAAAAABRY\/gytVdHkgMCA\/s320\/FDAIntern_logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222949583662954402\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Yes, it&#8217;s FDA Intern! Strange visitor from an Ivy League school who came to FDA with powers and ability far beyond those of Janet Woodcock or even FDA commish Andy von Eschenbach!<\/p>\n<p>FDA Intern! Who can change the course of mighty clinical trials, approve drug ads faster than a speeding bullet, jump through Congressional Subcommittee hoops of fire and ire, and who disguised as Emily Jameson (no relation to Jenna Jameson), mild-mannered intern for a great regulatory agency, fights a never ending battle for fast-track drug approvals, pharmaceutical company user fees, and the FDA way!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fdaintern\/Post2-Panel-1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fdaintern\/Post2-Panel-2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fdaintern\/Post2-Panel-3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fdaintern\/Post2-Panel-4.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fdaintern\/Post2-Panel-5.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a CBS News story &#8212; &#8220;FDA Execs Reap Lavish Bonuses&#8221; &#8212; 28 senior FDA executives took in a combined $1 million in bonuses last year. &#8220;They&#8217;ve done such a miserable job these last two years, I think they should leave! Not get bonuses of $40,000 [to] $50,000!&#8221; Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said. &#8220;Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1063,44,769,725],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FDA Intern Gets Her Bonus! - Pharma Marketing Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/fda-intern-gets-her-bonus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FDA Intern Gets Her Bonus! - Pharma Marketing Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to a CBS News story &#8212; &#8220;FDA Execs Reap Lavish Bonuses&#8221; &#8212; 28 senior FDA executives took in a combined $1 million in bonuses last year. &#8220;They&#8217;ve done such a miserable job these last two years, I think they should leave! 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