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Big Pharma Saved My Life
“For all its well-documented inefficiencies, the American healthcare system is second to none,” writes Erick Erickson for The Free Press. (F. Gordon via Getty Images)
My wife and I are here thanks to God and the companies that develop lifesaving drugs.
By Erick Erickson
01.31.25 — Health and Self-Improvement
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This is what happened to me and my family one awful day in 2016: First, my lungs filled with blood clots. My blood-oxygen level dropped to nearly 80 percent, and doctors told me I might have a day to live. As I was literally wheeled into a cardiac ICU and told someone needed to summon my family, my wife called to say the Mayo Clinic had just informed her she had a rare, genetic, and incurable form of lung cancer.

That was nine years ago. We are still both here, thanks to God and the much-maligned “Big Pharma.”

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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson is host of the Erick Erickson Show. He lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife and two children.
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