It's not what you think. It's not about the money. It's about my grandfather.
My grandfather came to this country as a seventeen year old to escape a communist regime. He became a US citizen, raised a family, worked as an iron worker, a delivery man, a handy man, and saw his first born graduate from college.
He tried to enlist to serve in the army during WWII, but because he was from a communist country they wouldn't accept him. That did not stop him. He took his iron worker skills and joined Johns Manville Company to help build ships for the Navy. He died at the age of 73 from asbestosis. He battled cancer and won for five years. Then his kidneys shut down, and the nephrologists treated the organ, and not the man. He died believing he had lived the American Dream.
His spirit, his suffering, and his dignity drive me to make sure that I play my small part to help educate physicians on how our clients' medicines can treat the entire human being. To help patients better understand the benefits they can derive from being compliant and adherent to the medicines their physicians prescribe. To make sure our lawmakers understand the heart and souls of the people that work in the pharmaceutical community. After all, I carry more then just his last name. I am John Joseph II. |
