Stupid Cyber Ethics. I, personally, do not particularly care about the ethical issues involved in people from both sides of the border purchasing drugs from online Canadian pharmacies. Really, I don’t. So writing a paper worth 20% of my final on this very topic has been an exercise in frustration the last few days. At least today I finally caught up on all the required readings and thus gave myself a suitable grounding in the ethical framework necessary to tackle such a (dry, very dry, holy crap so dry) task. At long last I am more than halfway through the essay’s first draft but progress is slow and painful. I am already grateful that I only have one more of these papers to do for this class. If this was a technical essay I probably would have finished this on the day it was assignment but, alas, I need this course for my Applied IT minor and so I continue to slog through it. I did take a philosophy course at UoT back in the day but I don’t recall enjoying that much more than this. Less, in fact. But it did give me a background that other students in the course may not have and might then help my paper reach the top of the bell curve. This semester I made a promise to myself that I would complete every assignment a few days early and with care as to not repeat the mistakes of the fall where I feel I let too many easy marks slip away. This doesn’t mean I always have to be happy about it though ;)
aside: Is it wrong that I have all my clean fresh-out-of-the-dryer towels wrapped around me right now? SO COMFY.
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Jen,
I think you have an interesting essay topic.
I’m a pharmacist that works as a medical writer for a major US pharmaceutical company.
Don’t be too hard on the pharmaceutical companies. Most people have no idea how much time goes into getting a drug to market.
Good luck with your essay!
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