Not written by an expert. Written by someone who got tired of not understanding the industry.
I'm not a pharma executive. I'm not a professor. I have a B.Pharm degree, and somewhere in those four years, I got tired of not understanding the industry I was about to enter.
A pharma degree teaches you the mechanism of action of practically any drug class. It does not teach you why a chemist recommends one paracetamol brand over another, what a medical rep actually does between 9 and 6, or why a multi-billion-dollar drug can vanish from the market overnight. None of that was in the syllabus. It still mostly isn't.
So I started figuring it out on my own — reading regulatory filings, court documents, industry reports, talking to people who actually work in this, and writing down what I learned in language that didn't assume the reader already knew everything. That's this site.
Two kinds of people seem to find it useful. One is B.Pharma students and freshers who feel the same gap I did — between what's taught and what the job actually looks like. The other is people with nothing to do with pharma, who are just curious how an industry that touches their life constantly — through every prescription, every price tag, every drug recall in the news — actually works. Pharma has a habit of sounding more complicated than it is. I try to write for both kinds of readers without dumbing anything down.
I'm not claiming expertise I don't have. I'm someone writing in public, checking my facts, getting corrected when I'm wrong, and getting better at this one article at a time. If you know more about something here than I do, I'd like to hear it.
— Piyush Singh