Pharmacist quits corp, now works for poor


	Pharmacist quits corp, now works for poor

masbury

3-12-2008 9:43 PM

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healthcare, politics

masbury says:

And loves it. Hightower's book "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow" tells the story of heroes like him all over America

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0a2daa9c-926e-4f1d-93e1-efc14cab2809/70138A36-156B-45AB-94CD-CEAA52E9E603/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/swim_against_the_current_jim" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/swim_against_the_current_jim" style="font-size: 11px;">www.democracynow.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/swim_against_the_current_jim"><P><B>AMY GOODMAN: </B>Well, tell us some of their stories. You talk about escaping the corporate tentacles. 
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